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2
3	<sect1>
4	<title>Version 4.0.0 Beta 2 (2010-12-09)</title>
5
6	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
7	were added:</para>
8
9	<itemizedlist>
10
11	<listitem>
12	<para>Reorganization of VirtualBox into a base package and Extension Packs; see <xref linkend="intro-installing" /></para>
13	</listitem>
14
15	<listitem>
16	<para>New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see <xref linkend="vboxconfigdata" /></para>
17	</listitem>
18
19	<listitem>
20	<para>Major rework of the GUI (now called "VirtualBox Manager"):
21	<itemizedlist>
22	<listitem>
23	<para>Redesigned user interface with guest window preview (also for screenshots)</para>
24	</listitem>
25	<listitem>
26	<para>New "scale" display mode with scaled guest display; see <xref linkend="intro-resize-window" /></para>
27	</listitem>
28	<listitem>
29	<para>Support for creating and starting .vbox desktop shortcuts (bug #1889)</para>
30	</listitem>
31	<listitem>
32	<para>The VM list is now sortable</para>
33	</listitem>
34	<listitem>
35	<para>Machines can now be deleted easily without a trace including snapshots and saved
36	states, and optionally including attached
37	disk images (bug #5511; also, <computeroutput>VBoxManage unregistervm --delete</computeroutput>
38	can do the same now)</para>
39	</listitem>
40	</itemizedlist>
41	</para>
42	</listitem>
43
44	<listitem>
45	<para>Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support; see <xref linkend="ovf" /></para>
46	</listitem>
47
48	<listitem>
49	<para>VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts</para>
50	</listitem>
51
52	<listitem>
53	<para>New virtual hardware:
54	<itemizedlist>
55	<listitem>
56	<para>Intel ICH9 chipset with three PCI buses, PCI Express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI);
57	see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" /></para>
58	</listitem>
59	<listitem>
60	<para>Intel HD Audio, for better support of modern guest operating systems
61	(e.g. 64-bit Windows; bug #2785)</para>
62	</listitem>
63	</itemizedlist>
64	</para>
65	</listitem>
66
67	<listitem>
68	<para>Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO
69	bandwidth; see <xref linkend="storage-bandwidth-limit" /></para>
70	</listitem>
71
72	<listitem>
73	<para>Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and
74	Parallels images</para>
75	</listitem>
76
77	<listitem>
78	<para>Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images</para>
79	</listitem>
80
81	<listitem>
82	<para>Guest Additions: support for copying files into the guest file system;
83	the Windows Additions can now automatically update themselves (requires
84	installed Windows Guest Additions 4.0 or later)</para>
85	</listitem>
86
87	<listitem>
88	<para>Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local
89	(COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs</para>
90	</listitem>
91
92	<listitem>
93	<para>Guest Additions: support for multiple virtual screens in Linux
94	and Solaris guests using X.Org server 1.3 and later</para>
95	</listitem>
96
97	</itemizedlist>
98
99	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
100
101	<itemizedlist>
102
103	<listitem>
104	<para>VMM: Enable large page support by default on 64-bit hosts
105	(applies to nested paging only)</para>
106	</listitem>
107
108	<listitem>
109	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when running Minix (VT-x only; bug #6557)</para>
110	</listitem>
111
112	<listitem>
113	<para>GUI: built-in creation of desktop file shortcuts to start VMs on
114	double click (bug #2322)</para>
115	</listitem>
116
117	<listitem>
118	<para>GUI: add configuration dialog for port forwarding in NAT mode
119	(bug #1657)</para>
120	</listitem>
121
122	<listitem>
123	<para>GUI: show the guest window content on save and restore</para>
124	</listitem>
125
126	<listitem>
127	<para>GUI: certain GUI warnings don't stop the VM output anymore</para>
128	</listitem>
129
130	<listitem>
131	<para>GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts
132	(Linux hosts only; bug #5449)</para>
133	</listitem>
134
135	<listitem>
136	<para>Bridged networking: improved throughput by filtering out outgoing
137	packets intended for the host before they reach the physical network
138	(Linux hosts only; bug #7792)</para>
139	</listitem>
140
141	<listitem>
142	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
143	again (bug #6864)</para>
144	</listitem>
145
146	<listitem>
147	<para>3D support: fixed various clipping/visibility issues (bugs #5659,
148	#5794, #5848, #6018, #6187, #6570)</para>
149	</listitem>
150
151	<listitem>
152	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
153	glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v (bug #7395)</para>
154	</listitem>
155
156	<listitem>
157	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9</para>
158	</listitem>
159
160	<listitem>
161	<para>2D Video acceleration: multimonitor support</para>
162	</listitem>
163
164	<listitem>
165	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
166	</listitem>
167
168	<listitem>
169	<para>VRDP: support for upstream audio</para>
170	</listitem>
171
172	<listitem>
173	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
174	</listitem>
175
176	<listitem>
177	<para>NAT: port forwarding rules can be applied at runtime</para>
178	</listitem>
179
180	<listitem>
181	<para>SATA: allow to attach CD/DVD-ROM drives including passthrough
182	(bug #7058)</para>
183	</listitem>
184
185	<listitem>
186	<para>Floppy: support readonly image files, taking this as the
187	criteria for making the medium readonly (bug #5651)</para>
188	</listitem>
189
190	<listitem>
191	<para>Audio: the DirectSound backend now allows VMs to be audible when
192	another DirectSound application is active, including another VM (bug
193	#5578)
194	</para>
195	</listitem>
196
197	<listitem>
198	<para>EFI: support for SATA disks and CDROMs</para>
199	</listitem>
200
201	<listitem>
202	<para>BIOS: reduce the stack usage of the VESA BIOS function
203	<emphasis>#4F01</emphasis> (Quake fix)</para>
204	</listitem>
205
206	<listitem>
207	<para>OVF/OVA: significant performance improvements during export and import
208	</para>
209	</listitem>
210
211	<listitem>
212	<para>OVF/OVA: creation of the manifest file on export is optional
213	now</para>
214	</listitem>
215
216	<listitem>
217	<para>OVF/OVA: allow overwriting the target disk format on
218	import</para>
219	</listitem>
220
221	<listitem>
222	<para>OVF/OVA: fixed export of VMs with iSCSI disks</para>
223	</listitem>
224
225	<listitem>
226	<para>Storage: Apple DMG image support for the virtual CD/DVD (bug
227	#6760)</para>
228	</listitem>
229
230	<listitem>
231	<para>Linux host USB support: introduced a less invasive way of
232	accessing raw USB devices (bugs #1093, #5345, #7759)</para>
233	</listitem>
234
235	<listitem>
236	<para>Guest Additions: Shared Folders now can be marked as being auto-mounted
237	on Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
238	</listitem>
239
240	<listitem>
241	<para>Linux Additions: Shared Folders now support symbolic links (bug #818)</para>
242	</listitem>
243
244	<listitem>
245	<para>Linux Additions: combined 32-bit and 64-bit additions into one
246	file</para>
247	</listitem>
248
249	<listitem>
250	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
251	to handle renamed user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
252	</listitem>
253
254	</itemizedlist>
255
256	</sect1>
257
258	<sect1>
259	<title>Version 3.2.12 (2010-11-30)</title>
260
261	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
262	added:</para>
263
264	<itemizedlist>
265
266	<listitem>
267	<para>VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit
268	hosts (bug #7577)</para>
269	</listitem>
270
271	<listitem>
272	<para>VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs
273	triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in
274	non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)</para>
275	</listitem>
276
277	<listitem>
278	<para>VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)</para>
279	</listitem>
280
281	<listitem>
282	<para>VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages</para>
283	</listitem>
284
285	<listitem>
286	<para>VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU</para>
287	</listitem>
288
289	<listitem>
290	<para>Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while
291	the VM is running</para>
292	</listitem>
293
294	<listitem>
295	<para>GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file
296	system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs
297	file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when
298	starting from a saved state</para>
299	</listitem>
300
301	<listitem>
302	<para>NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)</para>
303	</listitem>
304
305	<listitem>
306	<para>Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000</para>
307	</listitem>
308
309	<listitem>
310	<para>VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration</para>
311	</listitem>
312
313	<listitem>
314	<para>Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash</para>
315	</listitem>
316
317	<listitem>
318	<para>Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute
319	mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)</para>
320	</listitem>
321
322	<listitem>
323	<para>Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation;
324	fixes for Koran keyboards</para>
325	</listitem>
326
327	<listitem>
328	<para>Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during
329	open (bugs #5756, #5380)</para>
330	</listitem>
331
332	<listitem>
333	<para>Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)</para>
334	</listitem>
335
336	<listitem>
337	<para>Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a
338	multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
339	</para>
340	</listitem>
341
342	<listitem>
343	<para>USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
344	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version
345	3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)</para>
346	</listitem>
347
348	<listitem>
349	<para>USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts
350	only)</para>
351	</listitem>
352
353	<listitem>
354	<para>"iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid
355	being disconnected if the guest is idle</para>
356	</listitem>
357
358	<listitem>
359	<para>3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)</para>
360	</listitem>
361
362	<listitem>
363	<para>3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)</para>
364	</listitem>
365
366	<listitem>
367	<para>3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)</para>
368	</listitem>
369
370	<listitem>
371	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM
372	state (bug #4124)</para>
373	</listitem>
374
375	<listitem>
376	<para>Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in
377	VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)</para>
378	</listitem>
379
380	<listitem>
381	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection</para>
382	</listitem>
383
384	<listitem>
385	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types
386	(bug #2996)</para>
387	</listitem>
388
389	<listitem>
390	<para>Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper
391	operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)</para>
392	</listitem>
393
394	<listitem>
395	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes</para>
396	</listitem>
397
398	<listitem>
399	<para>Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS
400	is not installed (bug #7572)</para>
401	</listitem>
402
403	<listitem>
404	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing
405	files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)</para>
406	</listitem>
407
408	<listitem>
409	<para>Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating
410	user accounts for VM information</para>
411	</listitem>
412
413	</itemizedlist>
414
415	</sect1>
416
417	<sect1>
418	<title>Version 3.2.10 (2010-10-08)</title>
419
420	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
421	added:</para>
422
423	<itemizedlist>
424
425	<listitem>
426	<para>VMM: V8086 mode fix for legacy DOS/Windows guests with EMM386
427	(3.2.8 regression)</para>
428	</listitem>
429
430	<listitem>
431	<para>VMM: stability fix (bug #7342)</para>
432	</listitem>
433
434	<listitem>
435	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation related to large pages (bug #7300)</para>
436	</listitem>
437
438	<listitem>
439	<para>VMM: fixed support for large pages on Linux hosts</para>
440	</listitem>
441
442	<listitem>
443	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation for large memory 64-bit guests on 32-bit
444	hosts with nested paging (bug #7544)</para>
445	</listitem>
446
447	<listitem>
448	<para>VMM: performance improvements for VMs with more than
449	2GB RAM (bug #6928)</para>
450	</listitem>
451
452	<listitem>
453	<para>GUI: fixed host key handling if the host key is set to Left Alt
454	(Linux/Solaris hosts only; 3.2.0 regression; bug #6758)</para>
455	</listitem>
456
457	<listitem>
458	<para>GUI: the VM can be minimized from the mini toolbar
459	(bug #4952)</para>
460	</listitem>
461
462	<listitem>
463	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (3.2.0 regression;
464	bug #6122)</para>
465	</listitem>
466
467	<listitem>
468	<para>GUI: fixed the case where the user aborted the media selector
469	for selecting the boot hard disk from the VM wizard</para>
470	</listitem>
471
472	<listitem>
473	<para>GUI: added a check for Linux kernels 2.6.36 or later which are known
474	to have the asynchronous I/O bug on ext4 / xfs file systems fixed
475	(Linux hosts only)</para>
476	</listitem>
477
478	<listitem>
479	<para>OpenSolaris guests: use SATA controller by default</para>
480	</listitem>
481
482	<listitem>
483	<para>Storage: fixed I/O errors in the guest after compacting VDI
484	images (3.2.6 regression; bug #7294)</para>
485	</listitem>
486
487	<listitem>
488	<para>Storage: automatically repair base disk images with non-zero
489	parent UUID which made them inaccessible (bug #7289)</para>
490	</listitem>
491
492	<listitem>
493	<para>Storage: fixed corrupted images if a merge operation was
494	canceled</para>
495	</listitem>
496
497	<listitem>
498	<para>IDE: added ATAPI passthrough support for audio CDs</para>
499	</listitem>
500
501	<listitem>
502	<para>SATA: fixed a potential hang during boot of recent Solaris guests</para>
503	</listitem>
504
505	<listitem>
506	<para>SATA: handle out of disk space and similar conditions better</para>
507	</listitem>
508
509	<listitem>
510	<para>iSCSI: fixed sporadic hangs when closing the connection</para>
511	</listitem>
512
513	<listitem>
514	<para>VGA: fixed missing redraw with multiple screens under certain
515	circumstances (bug #7291)</para>
516	</listitem>
517
518	<listitem>
519	<para>VGA: serveral small fixes for legacy VGA graphics modes</para>
520	</listitem>
521
522	<listitem>
523	<para>Bridged networking: fixed occasional host freeze during VM shutdown
524	(Linux hosts only)</para>
525	</listitem>
526
527	<listitem>
528	<para>NAT: don't check for the existence of the TFTP prefix when delivering
529	a file via bootp (bug #7384)</para>
530	</listitem>
531
532	<listitem>
533	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names at the host resolver (bug #7138)</para>
534	</listitem>
535
536	<listitem>
537	<para>NAT: under rare conditions the NAT engine consumed 100% CPU load
538	(non-Windows hosts only)</para>
539	</listitem>
540
541	<listitem>
542	<para>VRDP: fixed memory leak under certain circumstances (bug #5966)</para>
543	</listitem>
544
545	<listitem>
546	<para>VRDP: fixed missing redraws with Windows guests under certain
547	circumstances</para>
548	</listitem>
549
550	<listitem>
551	<para>USB: properly discard blocking outstanding bulk URBs, fixes some
552	printers</para>
553	</listitem>
554
555	<listitem>
556	<para>USB: Blackberry fix (bug #6465)</para>
557	</listitem>
558
559	<listitem>
560	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed event queue processing problems which led to
561	hangs if the VM could not be started successfully</para>
562	</listitem>
563
564	<listitem>
565	<para>VBoxManage: don't crash if parameters with invalid characters
566	are passed (bug #7388)</para>
567	</listitem>
568
569	<listitem>
570	<para>VBoxManage: <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed a
571	bug where the command aborted with an error message under rare
572	circumstances</para>
573	</listitem>
574
575	<listitem>
576	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics</computeroutput>: made it work
577	for directly started VMs again (3.2.8 regression; bug #7482)</para>
578	</listitem>
579
580	<listitem>
581	<para>3D support: report <emphasis>GLX_ARB_get_proc_address</emphasis>
582	as supported extension</para>
583	</listitem>
584
585	<listitem>
586	<para>3D support: guest application stack corruption when using
587	<emphasis>glGetVertexAttrib[ifd]v</emphasis> (bug #7395)</para>
588	</listitem>
589
590	<listitem>
591	<para>3D support: fixed broken 3D support when switching to
592	fullscreen/seamless modes (bug #7314)</para>
593	</listitem>
594
595	<listitem>
596	<para>3D support: fixed 32bit OpenGL apps under 64bit Windows XP/Vista (bug #7066)</para>
597	</listitem>
598
599	<listitem>
600	<para>OVF: fixed bug when exporting a VM with multiple attached disks
601	(bug #7366)</para>
602	</listitem>
603
604	<listitem>
605	<para>OVF: fixed slow export for certain filesystems (bug #3719)</para>
606	</listitem>
607
608	<listitem>
609	<para>OVF: disabled manifest (.mf file) support; manifests are no
610	longer verified on import nor written on export</para>
611	</listitem>
612
613	<listitem>
614	<para>Shared clipboard/Windows: improved the reliability of the shared
615	clipboard on Windows hosts and guest (partial fix to bug #5266)</para>
616	</listitem>
617
618	<listitem>
619	<para>Shared Folders: don't show an empty directory if filenames with an
620	invalid encoding exist on the host (bug #7349)</para>
621	</listitem>
622
623	<listitem>
624	<para>Shared Folders: return the proper error code when trying
625	to list files for a non-existing wildcard (bug #7004)</para>
626	</listitem>
627
628	<listitem>
629	<para>Audio: fixed guest memory corruption when capturing from the
630	NULL audio backend (bug #6911)</para>
631	</listitem>
632
633	<listitem>
634	<para>Audio: improved playback quality (less choppy)</para>
635	</listitem>
636
637	<listitem>
638	<para>Web service: avoid unnecessary creation of idle threads</para>
639	</listitem>
640
641	<listitem>
642	<para>Additions: fixed bug in the guest execution feature when passing
643	more than one environment variable</para>
644	</listitem>
645
646	<listitem>
647	<para>Additions: refresh all guest properties written by VBoxService
648	after the VM was restored from a saved state</para>
649	</listitem>
650
651	<listitem>
652	<para>Additions: fixed a <emphasis>division by zero</emphasis> crash of
653	VBoxService under certain circumstances</para>
654	</listitem>
655
656	<listitem>
657	<para>Additions: immediately resynchronize the guest time with the host
658	time after the VM was restored from a saved state (bug #4018)</para>
659	</listitem>
660
661	<listitem>
662	<para>Additions/Windows: fixed <emphasis>LsaEnumerate</emphasis> error when
663	enumerating logged in users</para>
664	</listitem>
665
666	<listitem>
667	<para>Additions/X.Org: support X.Org Server 1.9 (bug #7306)</para>
668	</listitem>
669
670	<listitem>
671	<para>Additions/X.Org: don't crash VBoxClient during reboot</para>
672	</listitem>
673
674	<listitem>
675	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host DVD drive enumeration on Solaris 10</para>
676	</listitem>
677
678	<listitem>
679	<para>Solaris hosts: added a custom core dumper to procure more data
680	in the event of a VM crash</para>
681	</listitem>
682
683	<listitem>
684	<para>Solaris guests: fixed user idle detection</para>
685	</listitem>
686
687	<listitem>
688	<para>Solaris guests: fixed a possible panic in Shared Folders when using
689	the wrong user or group IDs (bug #7295)</para>
690	</listitem>
691
692	<listitem>
693	<para>Solaris guests: fixed Shared Folders from truncating files to 2GB on
694	32-bit guests (bug #7324)</para>
695	</listitem>
696
697	<listitem>
698	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a BSOD under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys
699	(bug #7448)</para>
700	</listitem>
701
702	<listitem>
703	<para>Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.36 fixes</para>
704	</listitem>
705
706	<listitem>
707	<para>Linux hosts/guests: DKMS fixes (bug #5817)</para>
708	</listitem>
709
710	<listitem>
711	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed missing dock menu entries (bug #7392)</para>
712	</listitem>
713
714	</itemizedlist>
715
716	</sect1>
717
718	<sect1>
719	<title>Version 3.2.8 (2010-08-05)</title>
720
721	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
722	added:</para>
723
724	<itemizedlist>
725
726	<listitem>
727	<para>VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying
728	to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings</para>
729	</listitem>
730
731	<listitem>
732	<para>GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug 5459)</para>
733	</listitem>
734
735	<listitem>
736	<para>GUI: don't use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only;
737	bug #6809)</para>
738	</listitem>
739
740	<listitem>
741	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>GL_EXT_texture_sRGB</emphasis> support</para>
742	</listitem>
743
744	<listitem>
745	<para>PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression</para>
746	</listitem>
747
748	<listitem>
749	<para>OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain
750	circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)</para>
751	</listitem>
752
753	<listitem>
754	<para>USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status
755	changes</para>
756	</listitem>
757
758	<listitem>
759	<para>USB: respect the remote-only filter</para>
760	</listitem>
761
762	<listitem>
763	<para>USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of
764	certain devices (Windows hosts only)</para>
765	</listitem>
766
767	<listitem>
768	<para>USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters
769	in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)</para>
770	</listitem>
771
772	<listitem>
773	<para>PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature</para>
774	</listitem>
775
776	<listitem>
777	<para>PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs</para>
778	</listitem>
779
780	<listitem>
781	<para>PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests </para>
782	</listitem>
783
784	<listitem>
785	<para>Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled</para>
786	</listitem>
787
788	<listitem>
789	<para>Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on
790	bridged device (bug #7059)</para>
791	</listitem>
792
793	<listitem>
794	<para>Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)</para>
795	</listitem>
796
797	<listitem>
798	<para>Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup
799	(bug #6832)</para>
800	</listitem>
801
802	<listitem>
803	<para>BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer
804	guests</para>
805	</listitem>
806
807	<listitem>
808	<para>LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances</para>
809	</listitem>
810
811	<listitem>
812	<para>Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs
813	without external tools and tricks</para>
814	</listitem>
815
816	<listitem>
817	<para>Shared Folders: several fixes and performance enhancements
818	for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)</para>
819	</listitem>
820
821	<listitem>
822	<para>Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations</para>
823	</listitem>
824
825	<listitem>
826	<para>Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties
827	of a running VM with an empty "patterns" field (bug #7171)</para>
828	</listitem>
829
830	<listitem>
831	<para>Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on
832	shutdown</para>
833	</listitem>
834
835	<listitem>
836	<para>RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability
837	fixes</para>
838	</listitem>
839
840	<listitem>
841	<para>Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML
842	settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for
843	example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
844	</para>
845	</listitem>
846
847	<listitem>
848	<para>Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML
849	settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)</para>
850	</listitem>
851
852	<listitem>
853	<para>VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly
854	in subcommand <emphasis>openmedium disk</emphasis> (bug #6751)</para>
855	</listitem>
856
857	<listitem>
858	<para>Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
859	</para>
860	</listitem>
861
862	<listitem>
863	<para>Web service: added timestamps to logging output</para>
864	</listitem>
865
866	<listitem>
867	<para>Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII</para>
868	</listitem>
869
870	<listitem>
871	<para>X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)</para>
872	</listitem>
873
874	</itemizedlist>
875
876	</sect1>
877
878	<sect1>
879	<title>Version 3.2.6 (2010-06-25)</title>
880
881	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
882	added:</para>
883
884	<itemizedlist>
885
886	<listitem>
887	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
888	with certain Intel CPUs (VT-x only; bug #6166) </para>
889	</listitem>
890
891	<listitem>
892	<para>VMM: allow 64-bit SMP guests on 32-bit hosts (VT-x and AMD-V only;
893	does not apply to Mac OS X, which already supports it) </para>
894	</listitem>
895
896	<listitem>
897	<para>VMM: fixed Guru mediation if guests with more than 2GB are booted
898	with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (bug #5740)</para>
899	</listitem>
900
901	<listitem>
902	<para>VMM: fixed TR limit trashing (VT-x and 64-bit host only; bug #7052)</para>
903	</listitem>
904
905	<listitem>
906	<para>Page Fusion: several bug fixes for SMP guests (including bug #6964) </para>
907	</listitem>
908
909	<listitem>
910	<para>Teleportation: several fixes and improvements</para>
911	</listitem>
912
913	<listitem>
914	<para>Mac OS X server guests: compatibility fix</para>
915	</listitem>
916
917	<listitem>
918	<para>EFI: fixed memory detection for guests with 2GB or more RAM
919	assigned</para>
920	</listitem>
921
922	<listitem>
923	<para>GUI: added a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which affecting
924	asynchronous I/O on ext4 / xfs file systems (Linux hosts only)</para>
925	</listitem>
926
927	<listitem>
928	<para>GUI: added setting for multiple VRDP connections; useful if
929	multiple screens are enabled</para>
930	</listitem>
931
932	<listitem>
933	<para>GUI: another fix for the keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
934	</listitem>
935
936	<listitem>
937	<para>GUI: fixed quit dialog when used in seamless or fullscreen mode
938	(Mac OS X hosts only; bug #6938)</para>
939	</listitem>
940
941	<listitem>
942	<para>GUI: handle the extra key on the Brazilian keyboard on X11 hosts
943	again (bug #7022).
944	</para>
945	</listitem>
946
947	<listitem>
948	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed crashes when leaving the fullscreen mode
949	(bug #6768)</para>
950	</listitem>
951
952	<listitem>
953	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>storageattach</emphasis> error handling
954	(bug #6927)</para>
955	</listitem>
956
957	<listitem>
958	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>dhcpserver add</emphasis> (3.2.0 regression;
959	bug #7031)</para>
960	</listitem>
961
962	<listitem>
963	<para>Storage: fixed hang with images located on filesystems which
964	don't support async I/O (bug #6905)</para>
965	</listitem>
966
967	<listitem>
968	<para>Storage: fixed raw disks on Windows hosts (3.2.0 regression;
969	bug #6987)</para>
970	</listitem>
971
972	<listitem>
973	<para>LsiLogic: fixed hang with older Linux guests</para>
974	</listitem>
975
976	<listitem>
977	<para>BusLogic: fixed hang during I/O</para>
978	</listitem>
979
980	<listitem>
981	<para>SATA: set initial number of ports to 1 as some guests can't handle
982	30 ports (e.g. CentOS 4 and FreeBSD; bug #6984)</para>
983	</listitem>
984
985	<listitem>
986	<para>SATA: performance improvement</para>
987	</listitem>
988
989	<listitem>
990	<para>SCSI: fixed error when using the full format option during Windows
991	installation (bug #5101)</para>
992	</listitem>
993
994	<listitem>
995	<para>iSCSI: fixed authentication (bug #4031)</para>
996	</listitem>
997
998	<listitem>
999	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed excessive host kernel warnings
1000	under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only; 3.2.0 regression;
1001	bug #6872)</para>
1002	</listitem>
1003
1004	<listitem>
1005	<para>NAT: fixed potential memory leaks</para>
1006	</listitem>
1007
1008	<listitem>
1009	<para>NAT: increased the size of the memory pool for 16K Jumbo frames
1010	(performance tweak)</para>
1011	</listitem>
1012
1013	<listitem>
1014	<para>NAT: allow to link/unlink the network cable even if the VM
1015	is currently paused</para>
1016	</listitem>
1017
1018	<listitem>
1019	<para>E1000: disconnect cable was not properly handled if the NIC
1020	was not yet initialized by the guest</para>
1021	</listitem>
1022
1023	<listitem>
1024	<para>OVF: export performance optimization</para>
1025	</listitem>
1026
1027	<listitem>
1028	<para>OVF: upgraded OS type definitions to CIM 2.25.0 so that Windows 7
1029	and other OSes are now tagged correctly on export</para>
1030	</listitem>
1031
1032	<listitem>
1033	<para>Settings: the setting for disabling the host I/O cache was sometimes
1034	not properly saved</para>
1035	</listitem>
1036
1037	<listitem>
1038	<para>Settings: save machine state into XML correctly even when snapshot
1039	folder has been changed to a non-default location (bug #5656)</para>
1040	</listitem>
1041
1042	<listitem>
1043	<para>USB: allow the guest to disable an EHCI port</para>
1044	</listitem>
1045
1046	<listitem>
1047	<para>USB: find a valid language ID before querying strings (bug #7034)</para>
1048	</listitem>
1049
1050	<listitem>
1051	<para>POSIX hosts: fixed several memory leaks (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1052	</listitem>
1053
1054	<listitem>
1055	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VDI access problem under certain circumstances
1056	(IDE/SATA; 3.2.0 regression)</para>
1057	</listitem>
1058
1059	<listitem>
1060	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VM fails to start on 32-bit hosts (3.2.0 regression; bug #6899)</para>
1061	</listitem>
1062
1063	<listitem>
1064	<para>Windows hosts (32-bit): increase guest RAM limit if the host
1065	kernel allows for more virtual address space</para>
1066	</listitem>
1067
1068	<listitem>
1069	<para>Linux Additions: re-read a directory after a file was removed
1070	(bug #5251)</para>
1071	</listitem>
1072
1073	<listitem>
1074	<para>Linux Additions: install the DRI driver in the right location on
1075	ArchLinux guests (bug #6937)</para>
1076	</listitem>
1077
1078	<listitem>
1079	<para>X11 Additions: fixed spurious mouse movement events (bug #4260)</para>
1080	</listitem>
1081
1082	<listitem>
1083	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed guest execution feature</para>
1084	</listitem>
1085
1086	<listitem>
1087	<para>Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 is now able
1088	to handle renamed and principal user accounts; added various bugfixes</para>
1089	</listitem>
1090
1091	<listitem>
1092	<para>Windows Additions: improved command line parsing of the installer</para>
1093	</listitem>
1094
1095	<listitem>
1096	<para>Windows Additions: fixed driver verifier bugcheck in VBoxMouse (bug #6453)</para>
1097	</listitem>
1098
1099	<listitem>
1100	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit applications under 64bit Windows guests</para>
1101	</listitem>
1102
1103	</itemizedlist>
1104	</sect1>
1105
1106	<sect1>
1107	<title>Version 3.2.4 (2010-06-07)</title>
1108
1109	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1110	added:</para>
1111
1112	<itemizedlist>
1113
1114	<listitem>
1115	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11
1116	(improvement for the 3.2.2 fix)</para>
1117	</listitem>
1118
1119	<listitem>
1120	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1121	</listitem>
1122
1123	<listitem>
1124	<para>Host-only/bridged networking: fixed guest-to-guest communication
1125	over wireless (3.2.0 regression; bug #6855)</para>
1126	</listitem>
1127
1128	<listitem>
1129	<para>Storage: fixed a potential guest disk corruption with
1130	growing images (3.2.0 regression)</para>
1131	</listitem>
1132
1133	<listitem>
1134	<para>Page Fusion: fixed shared module detection for Win64 guests</para>
1135	</listitem>
1136
1137	<listitem>
1138	<para>3D support: allow use of <emphasis>CR_SYSTEM_GL_PATH</emphasis>
1139	again (bug #6864)</para>
1140	</listitem>
1141
1142	<listitem>
1143	<para>3D support: fixed a host assertion for some multi-threaded guest
1144	applications (bug #5236)</para>
1145	</listitem>
1146
1147	<listitem>
1148	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes with nVIDIA drivers on WDDM startup</para>
1149	</listitem>
1150
1151	<listitem>
1152	<para>OVF: fixed import of OVFs with a VM description (annotation)
1153	(3.2.2 regression; bug #6914)</para>
1154	</listitem>
1155
1156	<listitem>
1157	<para>VRDP: fixed issues with secondary monitors (bug #6759)</para>
1158	</listitem>
1159
1160	</itemizedlist>
1161
1162	</sect1>
1163
1164	<sect1>
1165	<title>Version 3.2.2 (2010-06-02)</title>
1166
1167	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1168	added:</para>
1169
1170	<itemizedlist>
1171
1172	<listitem>
1173	<para>VMM: fixed rare invalid guest state guru meditation (VT-x only)</para>
1174	</listitem>
1175
1176	<listitem>
1177	<para>VMM: fixed poor performance with nested paging and unrestricted
1178	guest execution (VT-x only; bug #6716)</para>
1179	</listitem>
1180
1181	<listitem>
1182	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation during Windows 7 bootup (bug #6728)</para>
1183	</listitem>
1184
1185	<listitem>
1186	<para>GUI: keep the status for remote control in sync with the actual
1187	state</para>
1188	</listitem>
1189
1190	<listitem>
1191	<para>GUI: don't exit after a successful refresh of an invalid VM configuration</para>
1192	</listitem>
1193
1194	<listitem>
1195	<para>GUI: fixed keyboard capturing bug under metacity (bug #6727)</para>
1196	</listitem>
1197
1198	<listitem>
1199	<para>GUI: fixed crash during VM termination if a modal dialog is open</para>
1200	</listitem>
1201
1202	<listitem>
1203	<para>GUI: default controllers names of New VM Wizard are synchronized with VM settings</para>
1204	</listitem>
1205
1206	<listitem>
1207	<para>GUI: fixed superfluous resize-event on powering-on VM for X11</para>
1208	</listitem>
1209
1210	<listitem>
1211	<para>GUI: fixed regression - missed USB item's tool-tip of USB devices menu</para>
1212	</listitem>
1213
1214	<listitem>
1215	<para>GUI: Activate VM window on mouse-hovering for multi-monitor VMs</para>
1216	</listitem>
1217
1218	<listitem>
1219	<para>VBoxSDL/Linux hosts: automated keyboard type detection (bug #5764)</para>
1220	</listitem>
1221
1222	<listitem>
1223	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM suspend under rare circumstances</para>
1224	</listitem>
1225
1226	<listitem>
1227	<para>SATA: fixed crash during VM reset after a snapshot was taken</para>
1228	</listitem>
1229
1230	<listitem>
1231	<para>Storage: fixed sporadic hang of SMP guests using SATA or
1232	LSI Logic SCSI and asynchronous I/O</para>
1233	</listitem>
1234
1235	<listitem>
1236	<para>Virtio-net: fix for guests with more than about 4GB RAM
1237	(bug #6784)</para>
1238	</listitem>
1239
1240	<listitem>
1241	<para>Page Fusion: fixed VBoxService crash with enabled Page Fusion on Win64 guests</para>
1242	</listitem>
1243
1244	<listitem>
1245	<para>Page Fusion: added kernel module sharing</para>
1246	</listitem>
1247
1248	<listitem>
1249	<para>HGCM: fixed memory leak which showed up if the Guest Additions were
1250	accessing a non-existing HGCM service</para>
1251	</listitem>
1252
1253	<listitem>
1254	<para>Teleportation: several fixes</para>
1255	</listitem>
1256
1257	<listitem>
1258	<para>Floppy: don't disable the host I/O cache by default</para>
1259	</listitem>
1260
1261	<listitem>
1262	<para>USB: fixed 3.1 regression with certain devices (e.g. iPhone); Windows
1263	host only</para>
1264	</listitem>
1265
1266	<listitem>
1267	<para>Serial: updated the guest device emulation to 16550A and reduced the
1268	probability for losing bytes during transmission (bug #1548)</para>
1269	</listitem>
1270
1271	<listitem>
1272	<para>NAT: re-fetch the name server parameters from the host on guest DHCP
1273	requests to handle host network switches more gracefully (bug #3847)</para>
1274	</listitem>
1275
1276	<listitem>
1277	<para>NAT: fixed parsing of IPv4 addresses in CIDR notation (bug #6797)</para>
1278	</listitem>
1279
1280	<listitem>
1281	<para>NAT: limit the number of name servers passed to the guest to four
1282	(non-Windows hosts only; bug #4098)</para>
1283	</listitem>
1284
1285	<listitem>
1286	<para>NAT: fixed DNS transaction ID mismatch (bug #6833)</para>
1287	</listitem>
1288
1289	<listitem>
1290	<para>VDE: fixed changing the attachment during runtime</para>
1291	</listitem>
1292
1293	<listitem>
1294	<para>Bridged networking: fixed memory leak in the Bridged Networking
1295	driver for Windows hosts (bug #6824)</para>
1296	</listitem>
1297
1298	<listitem>
1299	<para>Windows Additions: fix for NT4 guests (bug #6748)</para>
1300	</listitem>
1301
1302	<listitem>
1303	<para>Windows Additions: re-introduced system preparation feature</para>
1304	</listitem>
1305
1306	<listitem>
1307	<para>Linux guests: enable PAE for RedHat guests by default</para>
1308	</listitem>
1309
1310	<listitem>
1311	<para>Linux guests: fix support for disabling mouse integration
1312	(bug #6714)</para>
1313	</listitem>
1314
1315	<listitem>
1316	<para>Webservice: fixed a rare crash when calling IGuest methods from the webservice</para>
1317	</listitem>
1318
1319	<listitem>
1320	<para>OVF: fixed wrong hard disk UUIDs on export (bug #6802)</para>
1321	</listitem>
1322
1323	<listitem>
1324	<para>OVF: fixed 3.2.0 regression importing legacy OVF 0.9 files</para>
1325	</listitem>
1326
1327	<listitem>
1328	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 64bit applications on windows guests</para>
1329	</listitem>
1330
1331	<listitem>
1332	<para>3D support: fixed various host crashes (bugs #2954, #5713, #6443)</para>
1333	</listitem>
1334
1335	</itemizedlist>
1336
1337	</sect1>
1338
1339	<sect1>
1340	<title>Version 3.2.0 (2010-05-18)</title>
1341
1342	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
1343	were added:</para>
1344
1345	<itemizedlist>
1346
1347	<listitem>
1348	<para>Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation,
1349	the product is now called "Oracle VM VirtualBox" and all references
1350	were changed without impacting compatibility</para>
1351	</listitem>
1352
1353	<listitem>
1354	<para>Experimental support for Mac OS X Server guests (see <xref linkend="intro-macosxguests" />)</para>
1355	</listitem>
1356
1357	<listitem>
1358	<para>Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the
1359	amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see <xref linkend="guestadd-balloon" />)</para>
1360	</listitem>
1361
1362	<listitem>
1363	<para>Page Fusion automatically de-duplicates RAM when running similar VMs thereby
1364	increasing capacity. Currently supported for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
1365	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-pagefusion" />)</para>
1366	</listitem>
1367
1368	<listitem>
1369	<para>CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove)
1370	and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see <xref linkend="cpuhotplug" />)</para>
1371	</listitem>
1372
1373	<listitem>
1374	<para>New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance
1375	(see <xref linkend="nestedpaging"/>);
1376	also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging
1377	is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster,
1378	which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)</para>
1379	</listitem>
1380
1381	<listitem>
1382	<para>Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running</para>
1383	</listitem>
1384
1385	<listitem>
1386	<para>Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows
1387	guests (see <xref linkend="settings-display" />)</para>
1388	</listitem>
1389
1390	<listitem>
1391	<para>USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience
1392	if no Guest Additions are available (see <xref linkend="settings-motherboard" />)</para>
1393	</listitem>
1394
1395	<listitem>
1396	<para>LsiLogic SAS controller emulation (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
1397	</listitem>
1398
1399	<listitem>
1400	<para>RDP video acceleration (see <xref linkend="vrdp-videochannel"/>)</para>
1401	</listitem>
1402
1403	<listitem>
1404	<para>NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage</para>
1405	</listitem>
1406
1407	<listitem>
1408	<para>Use of host I/O cache is now configurable (see <xref linkend="iocaching" />)</para>
1409	</listitem>
1410
1411	<listitem>
1412	<para>Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications
1413	from the host system (replaces the automatic system preparation feature; see
1414	<xref linkend="guestadd-guestcontrol" />)</para>
1415	</listitem>
1416
1417	<listitem>
1418	<para>OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings
1419	that are not part of the base OVF standard</para>
1420	</listitem>
1421
1422	</itemizedlist>
1423
1424	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
1425
1426	<itemizedlist>
1427
1428	<listitem>
1429	<para>VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large
1430	amount of RAM (bug #5800) </para>
1431	</listitem>
1432
1433	<listitem>
1434	<para>Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added</para>
1435	</listitem>
1436
1437	<listitem>
1438	<para>GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new
1439	VM</para>
1440	</listitem>
1441
1442	<listitem>
1443	<para>GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of
1444	passing the local host time to the guest (bug #1310)</para>
1445	</listitem>
1446
1447	<listitem>
1448	<para>GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs #1322 and
1449	#1669)</para>
1450	</listitem>
1451
1452	<listitem>
1453	<para>GUI: offer to download the user manual in the OSE version (bug
1454	#6442)</para>
1455	</listitem>
1456
1457	<listitem>
1458	<para>GUI: allow to set an empty host key to disallow any host key
1459	combination (bug #684)</para>
1460	</listitem>
1461
1462	<listitem>
1463	<para>GUI: allow to restrict the possible actions when shutting down
1464	the VM from the GUI</para>
1465	</listitem>
1466
1467	<listitem>
1468	<para>Main: allow to start a VM even if a virtual DVD or floppy
1469	medium is not accessible</para>
1470	</listitem>
1471
1472	<listitem>
1473	<para>Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files</para>
1474	</listitem>
1475
1476	<listitem>
1477	<para>Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for
1478	audio input (bug #5869)</para>
1479	</listitem>
1480
1481	<listitem>
1482	<para>Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug
1483	#3106)</para>
1484	</listitem>
1485
1486	<listitem>
1487	<para>Mac OS X: moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM
1488	settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure
1489	it</para>
1490	</listitem>
1491
1492	<listitem>
1493	<para>Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu</para>
1494	</listitem>
1495
1496	<listitem>
1497	<para>3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
1498	</listitem>
1499
1500	<listitem>
1501	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes when using
1502	<emphasis>ARB_IMAGING</emphasis> (bug #6014)</para>
1503	</listitem>
1504
1505	<listitem>
1506	<para>3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several
1507	windows with single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1508	</listitem>
1509
1510	<listitem>
1511	<para>3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support</para>
1512	</listitem>
1513
1514	<listitem>
1515	<para>3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support</para>
1516	</listitem>
1517
1518	<listitem>
1519	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1520	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1521	</listitem>
1522
1523	<listitem>
1524	<para>3D support: fixed blank screen after loading snapshot of VM with enabled Compiz</para>
1525	</listitem>
1526
1527	<listitem>
1528	<para>Added support for <emphasis>Virtual Distributed Ethernet</emphasis> (VDE)
1529	(Linux hosts only; see <xref linkend="networkingmodes" />)</para>
1530	</listitem>
1531
1532	<listitem>
1533	<para>Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)</para>
1534	</listitem>
1535
1536	<listitem>
1537	<para>OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller
1538	in VirtualBox</para>
1539	</listitem>
1540
1541	<listitem>
1542	<para>OVF: fix VMDK format string identifiers and sort XML elements from rasd: namespace
1543	alphabetically as prescribed by standard</para>
1544	</listitem>
1545
1546	<listitem>
1547	<para>VBoxShell: interactive Python shell extended to be fully functional TUI for
1548	VirtualBox</para>
1549	</listitem>
1550
1551	<listitem>
1552	<para>Linux Additions: support Fedora 13 (bug #6370)</para>
1553	</listitem>
1554
1555	<listitem>
1556	<para>VBoxManage: fixed overly strict checks when creating a raw partition
1557	VMDK (bugs #688, #4438)</para>
1558	</listitem>
1559
1560	</itemizedlist>
1561	</sect1>
1562
1563	<sect1>
1564	<title>Version 3.1.8 (2010-05-10)</title>
1565
1566	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1567	added:</para>
1568
1569	<itemizedlist>
1570
1571	<listitem>
1572	<para>VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during
1573	early boot (software virtualization only)</para>
1574	</listitem>
1575
1576	<listitem>
1577	<para>VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation</para>
1578	</listitem>
1579
1580	<listitem>
1581	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled</para>
1582	</listitem>
1583
1584	<listitem>
1585	<para>VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging
1586	only) </para>
1587	</listitem>
1588
1589	<listitem>
1590	<para>GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates
1591	to the guest (3.1.6 regression)</para>
1592	</listitem>
1593
1594	<listitem>
1595	<para>GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the
1596	interface version</para>
1597	</listitem>
1598
1599	<listitem>
1600	<para>GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage
1601	settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the
1602	slot empty</para>
1603	</listitem>
1604
1605	<listitem>
1606	<para>GUI: added <computeroutput>--seamless</computeroutput> and
1607	<computeroutput>--fullscreen</computeroutput> command line switches
1608	(bug #4220)</para>
1609	</listitem>
1610
1611	<listitem>
1612	<para>GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances</para>
1613	</listitem>
1614
1615	<listitem>
1616	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with
1617	non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208)</para>
1618	</listitem>
1619
1620	<listitem>
1621	<para>LsiLogic: fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when
1622	using the drivers from LSI</para>
1623	</listitem>
1624
1625	<listitem>
1626	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard
1627	disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079)</para>
1628	</listitem>
1629
1630	<listitem>
1631	<para>Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are
1632	attached</para>
1633	</listitem>
1634
1635	<listitem>
1636	<para>Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and paravirtualized
1637	adapters (bug #6519)</para>
1638	</listitem>
1639
1640	<listitem>
1641	<para>NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427)</para>
1642	</listitem>
1643
1644	<listitem>
1645	<para>SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when
1646	booting from SCSI devices</para>
1647	</listitem>
1648
1649	<listitem>
1650	<para>VBoxManage: fixed several bugs in cloning of images (one of them
1651	is bug #6408)</para>
1652	</listitem>
1653
1654	<listitem>
1655	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <emphasis>modifyvm --natnet default</emphasis></para>
1656	</listitem>
1657
1658	<listitem>
1659	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might
1660	fail to initialize</para>
1661	</listitem>
1662
1663	<listitem>
1664	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking</para>
1665	</listitem>
1666
1667	<listitem>
1668	<para>Shared Folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files
1669	(Linux guests only; bug #4890)</para>
1670	</listitem>
1671
1672	<listitem>
1673	<para>Shared Folders: renamed the guest kernel module from <emphasis>vboxvfs</emphasis>
1674	to <emphasis>vboxsf</emphasis> to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel.
1675	Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04</para>
1676	</listitem>
1677
1678	<listitem>
1679	<para>Shared Folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only)</para>
1680	</listitem>
1681
1682	<listitem>
1683	<para>Shared Folders: fixed deleting directories recursively
1684	(Solaris guests only; bug #6513)</para>
1685	</listitem>
1686
1687	<listitem>
1688	<para>Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain
1689	older X11 guests (bug #5840)</para>
1690	</listitem>
1691
1692	<listitem>
1693	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies
1694	(bug #6435)</para>
1695	</listitem>
1696
1697	<listitem>
1698	<para>Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous
1699	mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375)</para>
1700	</listitem>
1701
1702	<listitem>
1703	<para>Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to
1704	IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver
1705	(bug #6488)</para>
1706	</listitem>
1707
1708	<listitem>
1709	<para>SDK: fixed memory leak in
1710	<emphasis>IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow()</emphasis> (bug #6549)</para>
1711	</listitem>
1712
1713	<listitem>
1714	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the
1715	screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653)</para>
1716	</listitem>
1717
1718	<listitem>
1719	<para>VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug
1720	#5227)</para>
1721	</listitem>
1722
1723	<listitem>
1724	<para>Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other
1725	hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343)</para>
1726	</listitem>
1727
1728	<listitem>
1729	<para>webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings</para>
1730	</listitem>
1731
1732	<listitem>
1733	<para>Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll
1734	be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)</para>
1735	</listitem>
1736
1737	</itemizedlist>
1738	</sect1>
1739
1740	<sect1>
1741	<title>Version 3.1.6 (2010-03-25)</title>
1742
1743	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1744	added:</para>
1745
1746	<itemizedlist>
1747
1748	<listitem>
1749	<para>Linux hosts: fixed timing issue on hosts with Linux kernels
1750	2.6.31 or later with certain CPUs (asynchronous timer mode; bug #6250)</para>
1751	</listitem>
1752
1753	<listitem>
1754	<para>Linux hosts: properly handle host suspend/resume events on
1755	Linux kernels 2.6.30 or later (bug #5562)</para>
1756	</listitem>
1757
1758	<listitem>
1759	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash while enumerating the host network
1760	interfaces under certain circumstances</para>
1761	</listitem>
1762
1763	<listitem>
1764	<para>Snapshots: fixed image corruption after snapshot merge under certain
1765	circumstances (bug #6023)</para>
1766	</listitem>
1767
1768	<listitem>
1769	<para>Snapshots: fixed crash with VBoxHeadless / OSE</para>
1770	</listitem>
1771
1772	<listitem>
1773	<para>VMM: fixed reference counting guru meditation (bug #4940)</para>
1774	</listitem>
1775
1776	<listitem>
1777	<para>VMM: improved guest SMP stability</para>
1778	</listitem>
1779
1780	<listitem>
1781	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x hardware debug issues (bugs #477 & #5792)</para>
1782	</listitem>
1783
1784	<listitem>
1785	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>PGMDynMapHCPage</emphasis> guru meditation
1786	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bug #6095)</para>
1787	</listitem>
1788
1789	<listitem>
1790	<para>VMM: fixed <emphasis>pgmPoolTrackFlushGCPhysPTInt</emphasis> guru meditations
1791	(Mac OS X; VT-x only; bugs #6095 & #6125)</para>
1792	</listitem>
1793
1794	<listitem>
1795	<para>VMM: fixed host crash when running PAE guests in VT-X
1796	mode (Mac OS X only; bug #5771)</para>
1797	</listitem>
1798
1799	<listitem>
1800	<para>GUI: fix displaying of error message (bug #4345)</para>
1801	</listitem>
1802
1803	<listitem>
1804	<para>GUI: fix inability to enter seamless mode (bugs #6185, #6188)</para>
1805	</listitem>
1806
1807	<listitem>
1808	<para>3D support: fixed assertion and flickering when guest application uses several
1809	windows with a single OpenGL context (bug #4598)</para>
1810	</listitem>
1811
1812	<listitem>
1813	<para>3D support: fixed host crashes when using
1814	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> and array element
1815	calls (bug #6165)</para>
1816	</listitem>
1817
1818	<listitem>
1819	<para>3D support: fixed runtime linker errors with OpenGL guest libs
1820	(bug #5297)</para>
1821	</listitem>
1822
1823	<listitem>
1824	<para>3D support: fixed OpenGL extension viewer crash on startup
1825	(bug #4962)</para>
1826	</listitem>
1827
1828	<listitem>
1829	<para>NAT: fixed a 3.1.4 regression on Windows hosts where graceful
1830	connection termination was broken (bug #6237)</para>
1831	</listitem>
1832
1833	<listitem>
1834	<para>NAT: alternative network setting was not stored persistent
1835	(bug #6176)</para>
1836	</listitem>
1837
1838	<listitem>
1839	<para>NAT: fixed memory corruption during ICMP traffic under
1840	certain circumstances</para>
1841	</listitem>
1842
1843	<listitem>
1844	<para>Network: allow to switch the host interface or the internal
1845	network while a VM is running (bug #5781)</para>
1846	</listitem>
1847
1848	<listitem>
1849	<para>VHD: fix for images with a block size different than 2MB</para>
1850	</listitem>
1851
1852	<listitem>
1853	<para>USB: fixed filtered device attach regression (bug #6251)</para>
1854	</listitem>
1855
1856	<listitem>
1857	<para>USB: fixed crash in OHCI under rare circumstances
1858	(bug #3571)</para>
1859	</listitem>
1860
1861	<listitem>
1862	<para>VRDP: fixed hang under rare circumstances when attaching USB
1863	devices</para>
1864	</listitem>
1865
1866	<listitem>
1867	<para>ACPI: prevent guest freezes when accessing /proc/acpi for
1868	determining the state of the host battery and the AC adapter
1869	(Linux hosts only; bug #2836)</para>
1870	</listitem>
1871
1872	<listitem>
1873	<para>PulseAudio: fixed guest freezes under certain conditions
1874	(3.1.4 regression; bug #6224)</para>
1875	</listitem>
1876
1877	<listitem>
1878	<para>BIOS: increased space for DMI strings</para>
1879	</listitem>
1880
1881	<listitem>
1882	<para>BIOS: fixed interrupt routing problem for certain configurations
1883	(I/O-APIC enabled, ACPI not used; bug #6098)</para>
1884	</listitem>
1885
1886	<listitem>
1887	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling the <emphasis>INQUIRY</emphasis>
1888	response</para>
1889	</listitem>
1890
1891	<listitem>
1892	<para>iSCSI: be more robust when handling sense data</para>
1893	</listitem>
1894
1895	<listitem>
1896	<para>BusLogic: fixed FreeBSD guests</para>
1897	</listitem>
1898
1899	<listitem>
1900	<para>webservice: vboxwebsrv is now multithreaded</para>
1901	</listitem>
1902
1903	<listitem>
1904	<para>webservice: fixed handling of structs and arrays in PHP bindings</para>
1905	</listitem>
1906
1907	<listitem>
1908	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed netmask to stay persistent across reboots for
1909	Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
1910	</listitem>
1911
1912	<listitem>
1913	<para>Linux installer: removed external dependency to libpng12.so (bug #6243)</para>
1914	</listitem>
1915
1916	<listitem>
1917	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed superfluous kernel logging (bug #6181)</para>
1918	</listitem>
1919
1920	<listitem>
1921	<para>Linux Additions: fixed hang when starting the X server in Fedora12
1922	guests and in guests with Linux 2.6.33 or later (bug #6198)</para>
1923	</listitem>
1924
1925	<listitem>
1926	<para>Linux Additions: support Mandriva speedboot runlevel (bug #5484)</para>
1927	</listitem>
1928
1929	<listitem>
1930	<para>Linux Additions: fixed SELinux security context of mount.vboxsf (bug #6362)</para>
1931	</listitem>
1932
1933	<listitem>
1934	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #5737)</para>
1935	</listitem>
1936
1937	<listitem>
1938	<para>Web service: update PHP bindings to fix problems with enums and collections</para>
1939	</listitem>
1940
1941	</itemizedlist>
1942	</sect1>
1943
1944	<sect1>
1945	<title>Version 3.1.4 (2010-02-12)</title>
1946
1947	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
1948	added:</para>
1949
1950	<itemizedlist>
1951
1952	<listitem>
1953	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes</para>
1954	</listitem>
1955
1956	<listitem>
1957	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in certain rare cases (bug #5968)</para>
1958	</listitem>
1959
1960	<listitem>
1961	<para>VMM: activate NXE for PAE enabled guests (VT-x and AMD-V on 32 bits
1962	hosts only; bug #3578)</para>
1963	</listitem>
1964
1965	<listitem>
1966	<para>VMM: added workaround for broken BIOSes that make VirtualBox think
1967	AMD-V is in use (for details see bug #5639)</para>
1968	</listitem>
1969
1970	<listitem>
1971	<para>VMM: fixed rare host reboot when restoring a saved state
1972	(bug #3945)</para>
1973	</listitem>
1974
1975	<listitem>
1976	<para>VMM: fixed incompatibility with 2.6.32 Linux kernels
1977	(software virtualization only; bug #6100)</para>
1978	</listitem>
1979
1980	<listitem>
1981	<para>VMM: turn on nested paging by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x
1982	and AMD-V only) </para>
1983	</listitem>
1984
1985	<listitem>
1986	<para>VMM: turn on VPID by default for new VMs (if available; VT-x only) </para>
1987	</listitem>
1988
1989	<listitem>
1990	<para>VMM: perform strict CPUID compatibility checks when
1991	teleporting; to get the old behavior set
1992	"VBoxInternal/CPUM/StrictCpuIdChecks" to 0</para>
1993	</listitem>
1994
1995	<listitem>
1996	<para>VMM: fixed VM crash with certain 16 bits Windows applications (software
1997	virtualization only; bug #5399) </para>
1998	</listitem>
1999
2000	<listitem>
2001	<para>Snapshots: fixed a 3.1 regression that broke deletion of snapshots when
2002	a machine had immutable or writethrough storage attached (bug #5727)</para>
2003	</listitem>
2004
2005	<listitem>
2006	<para>Saved state: fixed <emphasis>VERR_SSM_LOADED_TOO_MUCH</emphasis>
2007	error when loading <emphasis>DisplayScreenshot</emphasis>(bug #6162)</para>
2008	</listitem>
2009
2010	<listitem>
2011	<para>VBoxManage: add <emphasis>restorecurrent</emphasis> operation to
2012	snapshots command</para>
2013	</listitem>
2014
2015	<listitem>
2016	<para>VBoxManage: fixed broken snapshot lookup by name (bug #6070</para>
2017	</listitem>
2018
2019	<listitem>
2020	<para>GUI: fixed the broken "Reload" button that reloads the machine
2021	XML when a machine is inaccessible</para>
2022	</listitem>
2023
2024	<listitem>
2025	<para>GUI: fixed guest fullscreen mode after reboot (bug #5372)</para>
2026	</listitem>
2027
2028	<listitem>
2029	<para>GUI: handle Ctrl+Break properly on X11 hosts (bug #6122)</para>
2030	</listitem>
2031
2032	<listitem>
2033	<para>GUI: fixed status LEDs for storage devices</para>
2034	</listitem>
2035
2036	<listitem>
2037	<para>GUI: workaround for disabling the seamless mode on KDE hosts
2038	(KWin bug)</para>
2039	</listitem>
2040
2041	<listitem>
2042	<para>3D support: fixed SELinux warning saying VBoxOGL.so requires text
2043	relocation (bug #5690)</para>
2044	</listitem>
2045
2046	<listitem>
2047	<para>3D support: fixed Corrupted surface rendering (bug #5695)</para>
2048	</listitem>
2049
2050	<listitem>
2051	<para>3D support: free textures on guest application termination (bug #5206)</para>
2052	</listitem>
2053
2054	<listitem>
2055	<para>3D support: fixed <emphasis>ubigraph_server</emphasis> crashes (bug #4674)</para>
2056	</listitem>
2057
2058	<listitem>
2059	<para>3D support: fixes for 64-bit Solaris guests</para>
2060	</listitem>
2061
2062	<listitem>
2063	<para>Seamless: disable seamless mode when guest changes screen
2064	resolution (bug #5655)</para>
2065	</listitem>
2066
2067	<listitem>
2068	<para>NAT: fixed high CPU load under certain circumstances (Windows hosts only;
2069	bug #5787)</para>
2070	</listitem>
2071
2072	<listitem>
2073	<para>NAT: fixed handling of the <emphasis>broadcast</emphasis> flag in
2074	DHCP requests</para>
2075	</listitem>
2076
2077	<listitem>
2078	<para>NAT: fixed rare crash due to an assertion in the ICMP code
2079	(bug #3217)</para>
2080	</listitem>
2081
2082	<listitem>
2083	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash when ports accessed beyond the valid
2084	range (bug #5923)</para>
2085	</listitem>
2086
2087	<listitem>
2088	<para>LsiLogic: fix for Windows 7 guests</para>
2089	</listitem>
2090
2091	<listitem>
2092	<para>ATA: fix for guru meditation when installing Solaris 8 guests (bug #5972)</para>
2093	</listitem>
2094
2095	<listitem>
2096	<para>VHD: fixed an incompatibility with Virtual PC (bug #5990)</para>
2097	</listitem>
2098
2099	<listitem>
2100	<para>VHD: update the footer backup after setting a new UUID (bug #5004)</para>
2101	</listitem>
2102
2103	<listitem>
2104	<para>Host DVD: really fixed loading "passthrough" setting from configuration
2105	file (bug #5681)</para>
2106	</listitem>
2107
2108	<listitem>
2109	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target on Linux
2110	(3.1.2 regression)</para>
2111	</listitem>
2112
2113	<listitem>
2114	<para>VRDP: fixed <emphasis>VERR_NET_ADDRESS_IN_USE</emphasis>
2115	error when restarting a VM (3.1 regression; bug #5902)</para>
2116	</listitem>
2117
2118	<listitem>
2119	<para>VRDP: fixed crash on Mac OS X when 3D is enabled (3.1
2120	regression)</para>
2121	</listitem>
2122
2123	<listitem>
2124	<para>PulseAudio: fixed recording (bug #4302)</para>
2125	</listitem>
2126
2127	<listitem>
2128	<para>USB: fixed a shutdown blue screen (Windows hosts only; bug #5885)</para>
2129	</listitem>
2130
2131	<listitem>
2132	<para>BIOS: fixed attribute during text scroll (bug #3407)</para>
2133	</listitem>
2134
2135	<listitem>
2136	<para>OVF: fix strange error messages on disk import errors</para>
2137	</listitem>
2138
2139	<listitem>
2140	<para>OVF: do not require write access to the .ovf file during import
2141	(3.1 regression; bug #5762)</para>
2142	</listitem>
2143
2144	<listitem>
2145	<para>iSCSI: fix taking snapshots of a running VM (bug #5849)</para>
2146	</listitem>
2147
2148	<listitem>
2149	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPod; bug #5873)</para>
2150	</listitem>
2151
2152	<listitem>
2153	<para>Solaris installer: fixed USB module removal and Solaris 10 "id" binary incompatibility</para>
2154	</listitem>
2155
2156	<listitem>
2157	<para>Guest Additions: fixed wrong guest time adjustment if the guest
2158	clock is ahead (3.1 regression; non-Windows guests only)</para>
2159	</listitem>
2160
2161	<listitem>
2162	<para>Linux Additions: fixed shared folders for Linux 2.6.32 guests (bug #5891)</para>
2163	</listitem>
2164
2165	<listitem>
2166	<para>Linux Additions: make the mouse driver work on Debian 5.0.3 guests
2167	again (3.1.2 regression, bug #5832)</para>
2168	</listitem>
2169
2170	<listitem>
2171	<para>Windows Additions: fixed malfunctioning VBoxService that broke time-sync (bug #5872)</para>
2172	</listitem>
2173
2174	<listitem>
2175	<para>Windows Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests</para>
2176	</listitem>
2177
2178	<listitem>
2179	<para>Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues</para>
2180	</listitem>
2181
2182	<listitem>
2183	<para>X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid
2184	(bug #5731)</para>
2185	</listitem>
2186
2187	<listitem>
2188	<para>XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode
2189	again</para>
2190	</listitem>
2191
2192	</itemizedlist>
2193
2194	</sect1>
2195
2196	<sect1>
2197	<title>Version 3.1.2 (2009-12-17)</title>
2198
2199	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2200	added:</para>
2201
2202	<itemizedlist>
2203
2204	<listitem>
2205	<para>VMM: fixed SMP stability regression</para>
2206	</listitem>
2207
2208	<listitem>
2209	<para>USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (bug #5237)</para>
2210	</listitem>
2211
2212	<listitem>
2213	<para>Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)</para>
2214	</listitem>
2215
2216	<listitem>
2217	<para>Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)</para>
2218	</listitem>
2219
2220	<listitem>
2221	<para>VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)</para>
2222	</listitem>
2223
2224	<listitem>
2225	<para>VBoxManage: added missing <emphasis>--cpus</emphasis> and
2226	<emphasis>--memory</emphasis> options to OVF <emphasis>--import</emphasis></para>
2227	</listitem>
2228
2229	<listitem>
2230	<para>GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages</para>
2231	</listitem>
2232
2233	<listitem>
2234	<para>GUI: NLS updates</para>
2235	</listitem>
2236
2237	<listitem>
2238	<para>OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)</para>
2239	</listitem>
2240
2241	<listitem>
2242	<para>Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)</para>
2243	</listitem>
2244
2245	<listitem>
2246	<para>Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support</para>
2247	</listitem>
2248
2249	<listitem>
2250	<para>Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the
2251	Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)</para>
2252	</listitem>
2253
2254	<listitem>
2255	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is
2256	used inside the guest (bug #5672)</para>
2257	</listitem>
2258
2259	<listitem>
2260	<para>Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in
2261	fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug
2262	#1762)</para>
2263	</listitem>
2264
2265	<listitem>
2266	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock &
2267	Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)</para>
2268	</listitem>
2269
2270	<listitem>
2271	<para>Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges
2272	right after installation (bug #4162)</para>
2273	</listitem>
2274
2275	<listitem>
2276	<para>Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading
2277	while a VM is still active (Windows host only)</para>
2278	</listitem>
2279
2280	<listitem>
2281	<para>Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)</para>
2282	</listitem>
2283
2284	<listitem>
2285	<para>Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network</para>
2286	</listitem>
2287
2288	<listitem>
2289	<para>Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with
2290	several virtual CPU cores</para>
2291	</listitem>
2292
2293	<listitem>
2294	<para>NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)</para>
2295	</listitem>
2296
2297	<listitem>
2298	<para>NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)</para>
2299	</listitem>
2300
2301	<listitem>
2302	<para>NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore
2303	when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)</para>
2304	</listitem>
2305
2306	<listitem>
2307	<para>ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully
2308	paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)</para>
2309	</listitem>
2310
2311	<listitem>
2312	<para>SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)</para>
2313	</listitem>
2314
2315	<listitem>
2316	<para>Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora
2317	guests</para>
2318	</listitem>
2319
2320	<listitem>
2321	<para>Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests
2322	and on some 64bit guests</para>
2323	</listitem>
2324
2325	<listitem>
2326	<para>Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning
2327	text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)</para>
2328	</listitem>
2329
2330	<listitem>
2331	<para>X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests
2332	(openSUSE 11.0)</para>
2333	</listitem>
2334
2335	<listitem>
2336	<para>X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg
2337	releases (openSUSE 11.1)</para>
2338	</listitem>
2339
2340	<listitem>
2341	<para>Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues</para>
2342	</listitem>
2343
2344	<listitem>
2345	<para>Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4</para>
2346	</listitem>
2347
2348	<listitem>
2349	<para>Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4</para>
2350	</listitem>
2351
2352	<listitem>
2353	<para>Shared Folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)</para>
2354	</listitem>
2355
2356	<listitem>
2357	<para>2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid
2358	GUI crashes on misconfigured systems</para>
2359	</listitem>
2360
2361	<listitem>
2362	<para>2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback</para>
2363	</listitem>
2364
2365	</itemizedlist>
2366
2367	</sect1>
2368
2369	<sect1>
2370	<title>Version 3.1.0 (2009-11-30)</title>
2371
2372	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
2373	were added:</para>
2374
2375	<itemizedlist>
2376
2377	<listitem>
2378	<para>Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session
2379	from one host to another (see <xref linkend="teleporting" />)</para>
2380	</listitem>
2381
2382	<listitem>
2383	<para>VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only
2384	the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well
2385	("branched snapshots"; see <xref linkend="snapshots" />)</para>
2386	</listitem>
2387
2388	<listitem>
2389	<para>2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video
2390	hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
2391	(see <xref linkend="guestadd-2d" />)</para>
2392	</listitem>
2393
2394	<listitem>
2395	<para>More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
2396	arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive
2397	(<xref linkend="storage" />)</para>
2398	</listitem>
2399
2400	<listitem>
2401	<para>The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is
2402	running</para>
2403	</listitem>
2404
2405	<listitem>
2406	<para>Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
2407	making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher</para>
2408	</listitem>
2409
2410	<listitem>
2411	<para>Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests
2412	(VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging) </para>
2413	</listitem>
2414
2415	<listitem>
2416	<para>Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface;
2417	see <xref linkend="efi" />)</para>
2418	</listitem>
2419
2420	<listitem>
2421	<para>Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net;
2422	see <xref linkend="nichardware" />)</para>
2423	</listitem>
2424
2425	</itemizedlist>
2426
2427	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
2428
2429	<itemizedlist>
2430
2431	<listitem>
2432	<para>VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases</para>
2433	</listitem>
2434
2435	<listitem>
2436	<para>GUI: snapshots include a screenshot</para>
2437	</listitem>
2438
2439	<listitem>
2440	<para>GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force</para>
2441	</listitem>
2442
2443	<listitem>
2444	<para>GUI: the log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows
2445	(bug #5291)</para>
2446	</listitem>
2447
2448	<listitem>
2449	<para>GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)</para>
2450	</listitem>
2451
2452	<listitem>
2453	<para>GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings</para>
2454	</listitem>
2455
2456	<listitem>
2457	<para>3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing</para>
2458	</listitem>
2459
2460	<listitem>
2461	<para>3D support: added <emphasis>GL_EXT_framebuffer_object</emphasis>,
2462	<emphasis>GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array</emphasis> support</para>
2463	</listitem>
2464
2465	<listitem>
2466	<para>3D support: fixed crashes in FarCry, SecondLife, Call of Duty,
2467	Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)</para>
2468	</listitem>
2469
2470	<listitem>
2471	<para>3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (bug #2816)</para>
2472	</listitem>
2473
2474	<listitem>
2475	<para>3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (bug #4653)</para>
2476	</listitem>
2477
2478	<listitem>
2479	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz</para>
2480	</listitem>
2481
2482	<listitem>
2483	<para>iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity</para>
2484	</listitem>
2485
2486	<listitem>
2487	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)</para>
2488	</listitem>
2489
2490	<listitem>
2491	<para>Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX
2492	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2493	</listitem>
2494
2495	<listitem>
2496	<para>NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy
2497	(see <xref linkend="nat_host_resolver_proxy" />)</para>
2498	</listitem>
2499
2500	<listitem>
2501	<para>VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces
2502	(bug #5523, #2787)</para>
2503	</listitem>
2504
2505	<listitem>
2506	<para>VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files
2507	(bug #2723)</para>
2508	</listitem>
2509
2510	<listitem>
2511	<para>VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V</para>
2512	</listitem>
2513
2514	<listitem>
2515	<para>Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files;
2516	see <xref linkend="vdidetails" /></para>
2517	</listitem>
2518
2519	<listitem>
2520	<para>OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an
2521	optional manifest file on import</para>
2522	</listitem>
2523
2524	<listitem>
2525	<para>OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)</para>
2526	</listitem>
2527
2528	<listitem>
2529	<para>Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest
2530	(bug #3773)</para>
2531	</listitem>
2532
2533	<listitem>
2534	<para>VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start</para>
2535	</listitem>
2536
2537	<listitem>
2538	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)</para>
2539	</listitem>
2540
2541	<listitem>
2542	<para>X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code
2543	layout (bug #2302)</para>
2544	</listitem>
2545
2546	<listitem>
2547	<para>Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen
2548	(bug #4866)</para>
2549	</listitem>
2550
2551	<listitem>
2552	<para>Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as
2553	left click (bug #5049)</para>
2554	</listitem>
2555
2556	<listitem>
2557	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under
2558	certain conditions</para>
2559	</listitem>
2560
2561	<listitem>
2562	<para>Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package</para>
2563	</listitem>
2564
2565	<listitem>
2566	<para>Solaris hosts: support for OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend)</para>
2567	</listitem>
2568
2569	<listitem>
2570	<para>Shared Folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)</para>
2571	</listitem>
2572
2573	<listitem>
2574	<para>Shared Folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)</para>
2575	</listitem>
2576
2577	<listitem>
2578	<para>Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version
2579	was updated and Additions are out of date</para>
2580	</listitem>
2581
2582	<listitem>
2583	<para>Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)</para>
2584	</listitem>
2585
2586	<listitem>
2587	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed <emphasis>as_pagelock()</emphasis> failed errors affecting guest
2588	properties (bug #5337)</para>
2589	</listitem>
2590
2591	<listitem>
2592	<para>Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7</para>
2593	</listitem>
2594
2595	<listitem>
2596	<para>Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information</para>
2597	</listitem>
2598
2599	<listitem>
2600	<para>Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information</para>
2601	</listitem>
2602
2603	<listitem>
2604	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2605	</listitem>
2606
2607	<listitem>
2608	<para>Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest
2609	Additions (bug #4039)</para>
2610	</listitem>
2611
2612	<listitem>
2613	<para>Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a
2614	file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory
2615	(bug #928)</para>
2616	</listitem>
2617
2618	<listitem>
2619	<para>SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5</para>
2620	</listitem>
2621
2622	</itemizedlist>
2623
2624	</sect1>
2625
2626	<sect1>
2627	<title>Version 3.0.12 (2009-11-10)</title>
2628
2629	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2630	added:</para>
2631
2632	<itemizedlist>
2633
2634	<listitem>
2635	<para>VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
2636	guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392) </para>
2637	</listitem>
2638
2639	<listitem>
2640	<para>VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels
2641	using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)</para>
2642	</listitem>
2643
2644	<listitem>
2645	<para>VMM: re-initizalize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes
2646	forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)</para>
2647	</listitem>
2648
2649	<listitem>
2650	<para>VMM: fixed loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is
2651	enabled</para>
2652	</listitem>
2653
2654	<listitem>
2655	<para>BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru
2656	meditation (bug #5389)</para>
2657	</listitem>
2658
2659	<listitem>
2660	<para>GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
2661	(bug #2676)</para>
2662	</listitem>
2663
2664	<listitem>
2665	<para>Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end
2666	is connected to a raw file</para>
2667	</listitem>
2668
2669	<listitem>
2670	<para>VMDK: fixed handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
2671	(bug #5355)</para>
2672	</listitem>
2673
2674	<listitem>
2675	<para>VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash</para>
2676	</listitem>
2677
2678	<listitem>
2679	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some
2680	guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)</para>
2681	</listitem>
2682
2683	<listitem>
2684	<para>Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the
2685	PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the
2686	guest (bug #4496)</para>
2687	</listitem>
2688
2689	<listitem>
2690	<para>Shared Folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)</para>
2691	</listitem>
2692
2693	<listitem>
2694	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)</para>
2695	</listitem>
2696
2697	<listitem>
2698	<para>Linux Additions: fixed writing to files opened in
2699	<emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode (bug #3805)</para>
2700	</listitem>
2701
2702	<listitem>
2703	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed regression in Guest Additions driver which
2704	among other things caused lost guest property updates and
2705	periodic error messages being written to the system log</para>
2706	</listitem>
2707
2708	</itemizedlist>
2709
2710	</sect1>
2711
2712	<sect1>
2713	<title>Version 3.0.10 (2009-10-29)</title>
2714
2715	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2716	added:</para>
2717
2718	<itemizedlist>
2719
2720	<listitem>
2721	<para>VMM: guest SMP stability fixes </para>
2722	</listitem>
2723
2724	<listitem>
2725	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222) </para>
2726	</listitem>
2727
2728	<listitem>
2729	<para>VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors;
2730	necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode
2731	(Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239) </para>
2732	</listitem>
2733
2734	<listitem>
2735	<para>VMM: guru meditation during SCO OpenServer installation and reboot
2736	(VT-x only; bug #5164)</para>
2737	</listitem>
2738
2739	<listitem>
2740	<para>VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)</para>
2741	</listitem>
2742
2743	<listitem>
2744	<para>VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)</para>
2745	</listitem>
2746
2747	<listitem>
2748	<para>VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)</para>
2749	</listitem>
2750
2751	<listitem>
2752	<para>VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)</para>
2753	</listitem>
2754
2755	<listitem>
2756	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)</para>
2757	</listitem>
2758
2759	<listitem>
2760	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual
2761	screen setup (bug #4942)</para>
2762	</listitem>
2763
2764	<listitem>
2765	<para>Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7</para>
2766	</listitem>
2767
2768	<listitem>
2769	<para>Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)</para>
2770	</listitem>
2771
2772	<listitem>
2773	<para>Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support
2774	on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)</para>
2775	</listitem>
2776
2777	<listitem>
2778	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later</para>
2779	</listitem>
2780
2781	<listitem>
2782	<para>Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory
2783	exhaustion</para>
2784	</listitem>
2785
2786	<listitem>
2787	<para>Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests</para>
2788	</listitem>
2789
2790	<listitem>
2791	<para>Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts,
2792	netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)</para>
2793	</listitem>
2794
2795	<listitem>
2796	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NO_MORE_FILES error when saving to shared
2797	folders (bug #4106)</para>
2798	</listitem>
2799
2800	<listitem>
2801	<para>Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared
2802	folders (bug #4299)</para>
2803	</listitem>
2804
2805	<listitem>
2806	<para>Linux Additions: <emphasis>sendfile()</emphasis> returned
2807	<emphasis>-EOVERFLOW</emphasis> when executed on a shared folder
2808	(bug #2921)</para>
2809	</listitem>
2810
2811	<listitem>
2812	<para>Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows
2813	hosts only)</para>
2814	</listitem>
2815
2816	<listitem>
2817	<para>Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the
2818	package provides proper modules for the current running kernel</para>
2819	</listitem>
2820
2821	<listitem>
2822	<para>3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)</para>
2823	</listitem>
2824
2825	<listitem>
2826	<para>Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX
2827	(and probably other) guests (bug #3206)</para>
2828	</listitem>
2829
2830	<listitem>
2831	<para>VMDK: fix handling of split image variants</para>
2832	</listitem>
2833
2834	<listitem>
2835	<para>VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent
2836	image inconsistency </para>
2837	</listitem>
2838
2839	<listitem>
2840	<para>USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices</para>
2841	</listitem>
2842
2843	<listitem>
2844	<para>GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file</para>
2845	</listitem>
2846
2847	<listitem>
2848	<para>GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards
2849	(bug #2025)</para>
2850	</listitem>
2851
2852	<listitem>
2853	<para>Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard
2854	initialisation failed (bug #4987)</para>
2855	</listitem>
2856
2857	</itemizedlist>
2858
2859	</sect1>
2860
2861	<sect1>
2862	<title>Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02)</title>
2863
2864	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
2865	added:</para>
2866
2867	<itemizedlist>
2868
2869	<listitem>
2870	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6
2871	(VT-x only; bug #4947)</para>
2872	</listitem>
2873
2874	<listitem>
2875	<para>VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x &
2876	AMD-V only; bug #5058) </para>
2877	</listitem>
2878
2879	<listitem>
2880	<para>VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows
2881	guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059) </para>
2882	</listitem>
2883
2884	<listitem>
2885	<para>VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests </para>
2886	</listitem>
2887
2888	<listitem>
2889	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression;
2890	software virtualization only) </para>
2891	</listitem>
2892
2893	<listitem>
2894	<para>VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the
2895	Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042) </para>
2896	</listitem>
2897
2898	<listitem>
2899	<para>Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands
2900	with root privileges</para>
2901	</listitem>
2902
2903	<listitem>
2904	<para>Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation
2905	which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)</para>
2906	</listitem>
2907
2908	<listitem>
2909	<para>Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain
2910	distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)</para>
2911	</listitem>
2912
2913	<listitem>
2914	<para>Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by
2915	opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)</para>
2916	</listitem>
2917
2918	<listitem>
2919	<para>Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the
2920	DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM
2921	selector (bug #5063)</para>
2922	</listitem>
2923
2924	<listitem>
2925	<para>Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not
2926	available</para>
2927	</listitem>
2928
2929	<listitem>
2930	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as
2931	interrupts were not re-enabled every time</para>
2932	</listitem>
2933
2934	<listitem>
2935	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only
2936	networking (bug #4775)</para>
2937	</listitem>
2938
2939	<listitem>
2940	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when
2941	changing them (bug #5077)</para>
2942	</listitem>
2943
2944	<listitem>
2945	<para>X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards
2946	(bug #4907)</para>
2947	</listitem>
2948
2949	<listitem>
2950	<para>Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless
2951	VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)</para>
2952	</listitem>
2953
2954	<listitem>
2955	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names
2956	with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)</para>
2957	</listitem>
2958
2959	<listitem>
2960	<para>Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)</para>
2961	</listitem>
2962
2963	<listitem>
2964	<para>Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with ZoomText Magnifier</para>
2965	</listitem>
2966
2967	<listitem>
2968	<para>Windows Additions: fixed NPGetUniversalName failure (bug #4853)</para>
2969	</listitem>
2970
2971	<listitem>
2972	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)</para>
2973	</listitem>
2974
2975	<listitem>
2976	<para>Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders
2977	are installed</para>
2978	</listitem>
2979
2980	<listitem>
2981	<para>Linux Additions: implemented <emphasis>ftrunctate</emphasis>
2982	(bug #4771)</para>
2983	</listitem>
2984
2985	<listitem>
2986	<para>VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use</para>
2987	</listitem>
2988
2989	<listitem>
2990	<para>Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under
2991	rare conditions (bug #4870)</para>
2992	</listitem>
2993
2994	<listitem>
2995	<para>VBoxManage: implemented <computeroutput>controlvm vrdpport</computeroutput>
2996	command</para>
2997	</listitem>
2998
2999	<listitem>
3000	<para>iSCSI: fixed issue with NetApp targets (bug #5072)</para>
3001	</listitem>
3002
3003	<listitem>
3004	<para>SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB </para>
3005	</listitem>
3006
3007	<listitem>
3008	<para>USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices
3009	(bug #5089)</para>
3010	</listitem>
3011
3012	<listitem>
3013	<para>NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)</para>
3014	</listitem>
3015
3016	</itemizedlist>
3017
3018	</sect1>
3019
3020	<sect1>
3021	<title>Version 3.0.6 (2009-09-09)</title>
3022
3023	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3024	added:</para>
3025
3026	<itemizedlist>
3027
3028	<listitem>
3029	<para>VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests
3030	(AMD-V only; bug #4392)</para>
3031	</listitem>
3032
3033	<listitem>
3034	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling
3035	a disabled device (bug #4510)</para>
3036	</listitem>
3037
3038	<listitem>
3039	<para>VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests
3040	(software virtualization only; bug #2149)</para>
3041	</listitem>
3042
3043	<listitem>
3044	<para>VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & OpenSolaris
3045	guests (bug #2258)</para>
3046	</listitem>
3047
3048	<listitem>
3049	<para>VMM: fixed decreasing <emphasis>rdtsc</emphasis> values
3050	(AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)</para>
3051	</listitem>
3052
3053	<listitem>
3054	<para>VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only) </para>
3055	</listitem>
3056
3057	<listitem>
3058	<para>VMM: <emphasis>cpuid</emphasis> change to correct reported virtual CPU ID in Linux </para>
3059	</listitem>
3060
3061	<listitem>
3062	<para>VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947) </para>
3063	</listitem>
3064
3065	<listitem>
3066	<para>Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)</para>
3067	</listitem>
3068
3069	<listitem>
3070	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking</para>
3071	</listitem>
3072
3073	<listitem>
3074	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were
3075	onlined or offlined</para>
3076	</listitem>
3077
3078	<listitem>
3079	<para>Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)</para>
3080	</listitem>
3081
3082	<listitem>
3083	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular
3084	RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)</para>
3085	</listitem>
3086
3087	<listitem>
3088	<para>Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys
3089	than usual (bug #4799)</para>
3090	</listitem>
3091
3092	<listitem>
3093	<para>Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard</para>
3094	</listitem>
3095
3096	<listitem>
3097	<para>Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having
3098	wrong values in Python webservices bindings</para>
3099	</listitem>
3100
3101	<listitem>
3102	<para>Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed</para>
3103	</listitem>
3104
3105	<listitem>
3106	<para>Python shell: added <emphasis>exportVM</emphasis> command</para>
3107	</listitem>
3108
3109	<listitem>
3110	<para>Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes</para>
3111	</listitem>
3112
3113	<listitem>
3114	<para>Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case</para>
3115	</listitem>
3116
3117	<listitem>
3118	<para>OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors</para>
3119	</listitem>
3120
3121	<listitem>
3122	<para>Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device
3123	filters in machine settings XML</para>
3124	</listitem>
3125
3126	<listitem>
3127	<para>Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)</para>
3128	</listitem>
3129
3130	<listitem>
3131	<para>Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)</para>
3132	</listitem>
3133
3134	<listitem>
3135	<para>GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)</para>
3136	</listitem>
3137
3138	<listitem>
3139	<para>VBoxManage: fixed <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>
3140	for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)</para>
3141	</listitem>
3142
3143	<listitem>
3144	<para>VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with
3145	<emphasis>--flags</emphasis> or <emphasis>-flags</emphasis></para>
3146	</listitem>
3147
3148	<listitem>
3149	<para>Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM</para>
3150	</listitem>
3151
3152	<listitem>
3153	<para>Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)</para>
3154	</listitem>
3155
3156	<listitem>
3157	<para>VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3</para>
3158	</listitem>
3159
3160	<listitem>
3161	<para>SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)</para>
3162	</listitem>
3163
3164	<listitem>
3165	<para>SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk</para>
3166	</listitem>
3167
3168	<listitem>
3169	<para>SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs </para>
3170	</listitem>
3171
3172	<listitem>
3173	<para>SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update</para>
3174	</listitem>
3175
3176	<listitem>
3177	<para>iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection,
3178	fix negotiation of parameters, fix command resend when the connection
3179	was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use
3180	phase collapse</para>
3181	</listitem>
3182
3183	<listitem>
3184	<para>BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail
3185	(2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)</para>
3186	</listitem>
3187
3188	<listitem>
3189	<para>PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection
3190	to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)</para>
3191	</listitem>
3192
3193	<listitem>
3194	<para>Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)</para>
3195	</listitem>
3196
3197	<listitem>
3198	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed failure in
3199	<emphasis>CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()</emphasis> on Linux (no GUID)</para>
3200	</listitem>
3201
3202	<listitem>
3203	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly
3204	interface bringup on Linux</para>
3205	</listitem>
3206
3207	<listitem>
3208	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris</para>
3209	</listitem>
3210
3211	<listitem>
3212	<para>HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only
3213	interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs
3214	#4698, #4790)</para>
3215	</listitem>
3216
3217	<listitem>
3218	<para>DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address
3219	less than the configured range</para>
3220	</listitem>
3221
3222	<listitem>
3223	<para>E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets</para>
3224	</listitem>
3225
3226	<listitem>
3227	<para>E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM</para>
3228	</listitem>
3229
3230	<listitem>
3231	<para>NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)</para>
3232	</listitem>
3233
3234	<listitem>
3235	<para>NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)</para>
3236	</listitem>
3237
3238	<listitem>
3239	<para>Bridged networking: fixed packet queue issue which might cause
3240	DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)</para>
3241	</listitem>
3242
3243	<listitem>
3244	<para>Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting
3245	the right domain when logging in the first time</para>
3246	</listitem>
3247
3248	<listitem>
3249	<para>Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems
3250	(like Korean, bug #3707)</para>
3251	</listitem>
3252
3253	<listitem>
3254	<para>Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space</para>
3255	</listitem>
3256
3257	<listitem>
3258	<para>Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests
3259	and hosts (bug #4712)</para>
3260	</listitem>
3261
3262	<listitem>
3263	<para>Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for
3264	new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)</para>
3265	</listitem>
3266
3267	<listitem>
3268	<para>Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring
3269	a saved state (bug #4700)</para>
3270	</listitem>
3271
3272	<listitem>
3273	<para>Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse
3274	cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)</para>
3275	</listitem>
3276
3277	<listitem>
3278	<para>SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)</para>
3279	</listitem>
3280
3281	<listitem>
3282	<para>Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)</para>
3283	</listitem>
3284
3285	</itemizedlist>
3286
3287	</sect1>
3288
3289	<sect1>
3290	<title>Version 3.0.4 (2009-08-04)</title>
3291
3292	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3293	added:</para>
3294
3295	<itemizedlist>
3296
3297	<listitem>
3298	<para>VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)</para>
3299	</listitem>
3300
3301	<listitem>
3302	<para>VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)</para>
3303	</listitem>
3304
3305	<listitem>
3306	<para>VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)</para>
3307	</listitem>
3308
3309	<listitem>
3310	<para>VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot</para>
3311	</listitem>
3312
3313	<listitem>
3314	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)</para>
3315	</listitem>
3316
3317	<listitem>
3318	<para>VMM: small performance improvement for OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)</para>
3319	</listitem>
3320
3321	<listitem>
3322	<para>VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)</para>
3323	</listitem>
3324
3325	<listitem>
3326	<para>SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)</para>
3327	</listitem>
3328
3329	<listitem>
3330	<para>SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)</para>
3331	</listitem>
3332
3333	<listitem>
3334	<para>3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for
3335	multithreaded applications (bug #3922)</para>
3336	</listitem>
3337
3338	<listitem>
3339	<para>3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications</para>
3340	</listitem>
3341
3342	<listitem>
3343	<para>3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty</para>
3344	</listitem>
3345
3346	<listitem>
3347	<para>NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)</para>
3348	</listitem>
3349
3350	<listitem>
3351	<para>NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)</para>
3352	</listitem>
3353
3354	<listitem>
3355	<para>NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)</para>
3356	</listitem>
3357
3358	<listitem>
3359	<para>iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks</para>
3360	</listitem>
3361
3362	<listitem>
3363	<para>GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on
3364	Windows (bug #4354)</para>
3365	</listitem>
3366
3367	<listitem>
3368	<para>GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display
3369	(bug #4654)</para>
3370	</listitem>
3371
3372	<listitem>
3373	<para>GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top</para>
3374	</listitem>
3375
3376	<listitem>
3377	<para>GUI: don't crash when adding plus configuring host-only network
3378	interfaces</para>
3379	</listitem>
3380
3381	<listitem>
3382	<para>Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path
3383	in VirtualBox (Windows host only)</para>
3384	</listitem>
3385
3386	<listitem>
3387	<para>USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB device filter settings
3388	inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)</para>
3389	</listitem>
3390
3391	<listitem>
3392	<para>Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest
3393	properties (bug #3415)</para>
3394	</listitem>
3395
3396	<listitem>
3397	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access
3398	(bug #1461)</para>
3399	</listitem>
3400
3401	<listitem>
3402	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard </para>
3403	</listitem>
3404
3405	<listitem>
3406	<para>Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or
3407	transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)</para>
3408	</listitem>
3409
3410	<listitem>
3411	<para>Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service
3412	fails to find any DVD drives</para>
3413	</listitem>
3414
3415	<listitem>
3416	<para>Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in
3417	Qt (bug #4353)</para>
3418	</listitem>
3419
3420	<listitem>
3421	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking</para>
3422	</listitem>
3423
3424	<listitem>
3425	<para>Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)</para>
3426	</listitem>
3427
3428	<listitem>
3429	<para>Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)</para>
3430	</listitem>
3431
3432	<listitem>
3433	<para>X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in
3434	seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)</para>
3435	</listitem>
3436
3437	<listitem>
3438	<para>X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large
3439	amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)</para>
3440	</listitem>
3441
3442	<listitem>
3443	<para>X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and
3444	guest-drawn mouse pointers</para>
3445	</listitem>
3446
3447	<listitem>
3448	<para>X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop
3449	working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238)</para>
3450	</listitem>
3451
3452	</itemizedlist>
3453
3454	</sect1>
3455	<sect1>
3456	<title>Version 3.0.2 (2009-07-10)</title>
3457
3458	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3459	added:</para>
3460
3461	<itemizedlist>
3462
3463	<listitem>
3464	<para>VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)</para>
3465	</listitem>
3466
3467	<listitem>
3468	<para>VMM: guest SMP performance improvements</para>
3469	</listitem>
3470
3471	<listitem>
3472	<para>VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security
3473	(VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)</para>
3474	</listitem>
3475
3476	<listitem>
3477	<para>VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software
3478	virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)</para>
3479	</listitem>
3480
3481	<listitem>
3482	<para>ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)</para>
3483	</listitem>
3484
3485	<listitem>
3486	<para>APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)</para>
3487	</listitem>
3488
3489	<listitem>
3490	<para>BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode</para>
3491	</listitem>
3492
3493	<listitem>
3494	<para>iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)</para>
3495	</listitem>
3496
3497	<listitem>
3498	<para>OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks</para>
3499	</listitem>
3500
3501	<listitem>
3502	<para>OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)</para>
3503	</listitem>
3504
3505	<listitem>
3506	<para>OVF: accept ovf:/disk/ specifiers with a single slash in addition to ovf://disk/ (bug #4452) </para>
3507	</listitem>
3508
3509	<listitem>
3510	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)</para>
3511	</listitem>
3512
3513	<listitem>
3514	<para>3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)</para>
3515	</listitem>
3516
3517	<listitem>
3518	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps</para>
3519	</listitem>
3520
3521	<listitem>
3522	<para>Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)</para>
3523	</listitem>
3524
3525	<listitem>
3526	<para>Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows
3527	guest (bug #4381)</para>
3528	</listitem>
3529
3530	<listitem>
3531	<para>X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344</para>
3532	</listitem>
3533
3534	<listitem>
3535	<para>X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)</para>
3536	</listitem>
3537
3538	<listitem>
3539	<para>Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests
3540	(for time synchronization and guest properties)</para>
3541	</listitem>
3542
3543	<listitem>
3544	<para>Windows Additions: fixed version lookup</para>
3545	</listitem>
3546
3547	<listitem>
3548	<para>Linux Installer: support Pardus Linux</para>
3549	</listitem>
3550
3551	<listitem>
3552	<para>Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a
3553	black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)</para>
3554	</listitem>
3555
3556	<listitem>
3557	<para>Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)</para>
3558	</listitem>
3559
3560	<listitem>
3561	<para>Solaris hosts: several installer fixes</para>
3562	</listitem>
3563
3564	<listitem>
3565	<para>Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328)</para>
3566	</listitem>
3567
3568	<listitem>
3569	<para>Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365) </para>
3570	</listitem>
3571
3572	<listitem>
3573	<para>Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)</para>
3574	</listitem>
3575
3576	<listitem>
3577	<para>Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML</para>
3578	</listitem>
3579
3580	</itemizedlist>
3581
3582	</sect1>
3583
3584	<sect1>
3585	<title>Version 3.0.0 (2009-06-30)</title>
3586
3587	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
3588	were added:</para>
3589
3590	<itemizedlist>
3591
3592	<listitem>
3593	<para>Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see <xref linkend="settings-processor" />)</para>
3594	</listitem>
3595
3596	<listitem>
3597	<para>Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
3598	(experimental; see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
3599	</listitem>
3600
3601	<listitem>
3602	<para>Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests</para>
3603	</listitem>
3604
3605	</itemizedlist>
3606
3607	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
3608
3609	<itemizedlist>
3610
3611	<listitem>
3612	<para>Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)</para>
3613	</listitem>
3614
3615	<listitem>
3616	<para>Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under
3617	certain conditions</para>
3618	</listitem>
3619
3620	<listitem>
3621	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE</para>
3622	</listitem>
3623
3624	<listitem>
3625	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)</para>
3626	</listitem>
3627
3628	<listitem>
3629	<para>VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)</para>
3630	</listitem>
3631
3632	<listitem>
3633	<para>VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don't support
3634	this feature (most do); bug #638)</para>
3635	</listitem>
3636
3637	<listitem>
3638	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)</para>
3639	</listitem>
3640
3641	<listitem>
3642	<para>VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) </para>
3643	</listitem>
3644
3645	<listitem>
3646	<para>VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)</para>
3647	</listitem>
3648
3649	<listitem>
3650	<para>VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)</para>
3651	</listitem>
3652
3653	<listitem>
3654	<para>VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)</para>
3655	</listitem>
3656
3657	<listitem>
3658	<para>VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3659	</listitem>
3660
3661	<listitem>
3662	<para>GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)</para>
3663	</listitem>
3664
3665	<listitem>
3666	<para>GUI: redesigned settings dialogs</para>
3667	</listitem>
3668
3669	<listitem>
3670	<para>GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters
3671	(non Windows hosts)</para>
3672	</listitem>
3673
3674	<listitem>
3675	<para>GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)</para>
3676	</listitem>
3677
3678	<listitem>
3679	<para>GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)</para>
3680	</listitem>
3681
3682	<listitem>
3683	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states</para>
3684	</listitem>
3685
3686	<listitem>
3687	<para>3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats</para>
3688	</listitem>
3689
3690	<listitem>
3691	<para>3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements</para>
3692	</listitem>
3693
3694	<listitem>
3695	<para>3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs</para>
3696	</listitem>
3697
3698	<listitem>
3699	<para>3D support: fixed glew library detection</para>
3700	</listitem>
3701
3702	<listitem>
3703	<para>3D support: fixed random textures corruption</para>
3704	</listitem>
3705
3706	<listitem>
3707	<para>VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client</para>
3708	</listitem>
3709
3710	<listitem>
3711	<para>Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading
3712	with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18</para>
3713	</listitem>
3714
3715	<listitem>
3716	<para>NAT: fixed "open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514" (forum)</para>
3717	</listitem>
3718
3719	<listitem>
3720	<para>NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters</para>
3721	</listitem>
3722
3723	<listitem>
3724	<para>NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface</para>
3725	</listitem>
3726
3727	<listitem>
3728	<para>PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)</para>
3729	</listitem>
3730
3731	<listitem>
3732	<para>VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)</para>
3733	</listitem>
3734
3735	<listitem>
3736	<para>VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image</para>
3737	</listitem>
3738
3739	<listitem>
3740	<para>VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes</para>
3741	</listitem>
3742
3743	<listitem>
3744	<para>VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when
3745	creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)</para>
3746	</listitem>
3747
3748	<listitem>
3749	<para>VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file</para>
3750	</listitem>
3751
3752	<listitem>
3753	<para>OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes</para>
3754	</listitem>
3755
3756	<listitem>
3757	<para>OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once</para>
3758	</listitem>
3759
3760	<listitem>
3761	<para>Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the
3762	virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)</para>
3763	</listitem>
3764
3765	<listitem>
3766	<para>Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions
3767	(2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)</para>
3768	</listitem>
3769
3770	<listitem>
3771	<para>Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the
3772	correct file mode when creating files</para>
3773	</listitem>
3774
3775	<listitem>
3776	<para>Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain
3777	conditions (bug #1187)</para>
3778	</listitem>
3779
3780	<listitem>
3781	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest
3782	on a Linux host (bug #3404)</para>
3783	</listitem>
3784
3785	<listitem>
3786	<para>X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)</para>
3787	</listitem>
3788
3789	<listitem>
3790	<para>X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes</para>
3791	</listitem>
3792
3793	<listitem>
3794	<para>Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux
3795	Enterprise Desktop 11</para>
3796	</listitem>
3797
3798	<listitem>
3799	<para>Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and
3800	guest property lookup</para>
3801	</listitem>
3802
3803	<listitem>
3804	<para>Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users,
3805	basic network information)</para>
3806	</listitem>
3807
3808	<listitem>
3809	<para>Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically
3810	(requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)</para>
3811	</listitem>
3812
3813	<listitem>
3814	<para>USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been
3815	added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input
3816	endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional
3817	devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242)</para>
3818	</listitem>
3819
3820	<listitem>
3821	<para>USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles</para>
3822	</listitem>
3823
3824	<listitem>
3825	<para>Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which
3826	are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented
3827	web service</para>
3828	</listitem>
3829
3830	<listitem>
3831	<para>Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface
3832	inheritance correctly, fixed</para>
3833	</listitem>
3834
3835	<listitem>
3836	<para>Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously
3837	unavailable</para>
3838	</listitem>
3839
3840	<listitem>
3841	<para>Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now</para>
3842	</listitem>
3843
3844	</itemizedlist>
3845	</sect1>
3846
3847	<sect1>
3848	<title>Version 2.2.4 (2009-05-29)</title>
3849
3850	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
3851	added:</para>
3852
3853	<itemizedlist>
3854
3855	<listitem>
3856	<para>Windows Installer: fixed a potential hang during
3857	installation</para>
3858	</listitem>
3859
3860	<listitem>
3861	<para>Windows Installer: fixed several problems (bug #3892)</para>
3862	</listitem>
3863
3864	<listitem>
3865	<para>Solaris hosts: make it work with Solaris build 114 or
3866	later (bug #3981)</para>
3867	</listitem>
3868
3869	<listitem>
3870	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a bug serial port character handling found during
3871	loopback (bug #3120)</para>
3872	</listitem>
3873
3874	<listitem>
3875	<para>Linux hosts: adapted vboxdrv.sh to the latest changes in
3876	<computeroutput>VBoxManage list runningvms</computeroutput>
3877	(bug #4034)
3878	</para>
3879	</listitem>
3880
3881	<listitem>
3882	<para>Windows hosts: fixed a crash caused by host-only/bridged
3883	networking</para>
3884	</listitem>
3885
3886	<listitem>
3887	<para>Mac OS X hosts: fixed access to host DVD with passthrough
3888	disabled (bug #4077)</para>
3889	</listitem>
3890
3891	<listitem>
3892	<para>Guest Additions: fixed problems with KDE 4 not recognizing mouse
3893	clicks</para>
3894	</listitem>
3895
3896	<listitem>
3897	<para>Windows Additions: fixed incorrect 8-bit guest color depth in
3898	Windows 7 guests</para>
3899	</listitem>
3900
3901	<listitem>
3902	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V could not be enabled for guests
3903	that require this setting (bug #4055)</para>
3904	</listitem>
3905
3906	<listitem>
3907	<para>VMM: fixed occasional crash due to insufficient memory</para>
3908	</listitem>
3909
3910	<listitem>
3911	<para>VMM: fixed hanging 64 bits Solaris guests</para>
3912	</listitem>
3913
3914	<listitem>
3915	<para>VMM: restore from a saved state occasionally failed
3916	(bugs #3984 and #2742)</para>
3917	</listitem>
3918
3919	<listitem>
3920	<para>Clipboard: fixed a deadlock while shutting down the shared
3921	clipboard on X11 hosts (bug #4020)</para>
3922	</listitem>
3923
3924	<listitem>
3925	<para>OVF: fixed potential hang during import</para>
3926	</listitem>
3927
3928	<listitem>
3929	<para>OVF: fixed potential crashes during import/export on Win64 hosts</para>
3930	</listitem>
3931
3932	<listitem>
3933	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
3934	fixed bug which could lead to crashes and image corruption
3935	(bug #3864)</para>
3936	</listitem>
3937
3938	<listitem>
3939	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>metrics collect</computeroutput>:
3940	now flushes the output stream</para>
3941	</listitem>
3942
3943	<listitem>
3944	<para>VHD: made <computeroutput>VBoxManage internalcommands
3945	sethduuid</computeroutput> work for .vhd files (bug #3443)</para>
3946	</listitem>
3947
3948	<listitem>
3949	<para>VHD: some .vhd files could not be cloned (bug #4080)</para>
3950	</listitem>
3951
3952	<listitem>
3953	<para>NAT: improvement of TCP connection establishment (bug #2987)</para>
3954	</listitem>
3955
3956	<listitem>
3957	<para>NAT: fixed order of DNS servers in DHCP lease (bug #4091)</para>
3958	</listitem>
3959
3960	<listitem>
3961	<para>NAT: fixed DHCP lease for multiple name servers (bug #3692)</para>
3962	</listitem>
3963
3964	<listitem>
3965	<para>NAT: fixed a potential segfault if the host lost its connectivity
3966	(bug #3964)</para>
3967	</listitem>
3968
3969	<listitem>
3970	<para>Shared Folders: deny access to parent directories on Windows
3971	hosts (bug #4090)</para>
3972	</listitem>
3973
3974	<listitem>
3975	<para>Shared Folders: make rm/rmdir work with Solaris guests on Windows
3976	hosts</para>
3977	</listitem>
3978
3979	<listitem>
3980	<para>Networking: fixed the problem with blocked receiving thread when
3981	a broadcast packet arrives too early to be handled by uninitialized
3982	e1000 adapter</para>
3983	</listitem>
3984
3985	<listitem>
3986	<para>Networking: fixed the problem that caused host freezes/crashes
3987	when using bridged mode with host's interface having RX checksum
3988	offloading on (bug #3926 and related). Fixes problems with TX
3989	offloading as well (bug #3870)</para>
3990	</listitem>
3991
3992	<listitem>
3993	<para>PXE boot: Added support for PRO/1000 MT Server adapter</para>
3994	</listitem>
3995
3996	<listitem>
3997	<para>Python bindings: fixed keyword conflict</para>
3998	</listitem>
3999
4000	<listitem>
4001	<para>SCSI: fixed occasional crashes on Win64</para>
4002	</listitem>
4003
4004	<listitem>
4005	<para>Serial: allow to redirect the serial port to a raw
4006	file (bug #1023)</para>
4007	</listitem>
4008
4009	<listitem>
4010	<para>VRDP: fixed a rare incorrect screen update</para>
4011	</listitem>
4012
4013	<listitem>
4014	<para>VMDK: fixed creating snapshots</para>
4015	</listitem>
4016
4017	</itemizedlist>
4018	</sect1>
4019
4020	<sect1>
4021	<title>Version 2.2.2 (2009-04-27)</title>
4022
4023	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4024	added:</para>
4025
4026	<itemizedlist>
4027
4028	<listitem>
4029	<para>Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting
4030	hosts and guests running the X window system</para>
4031	</listitem>
4032
4033	<listitem>
4034	<para>Guest Additions: make sure the virtual mouse autodetection works
4035	on first reboot after installing the Additions on X.Org server 1.5
4036	and later</para>
4037	</listitem>
4038
4039	<listitem>
4040	<para>Guest Additions: properly report process identity number of
4041	running services</para>
4042	</listitem>
4043
4044	<listitem>
4045	<para>Guest Additions: clean up properly if the X Window server
4046	terminates</para>
4047	</listitem>
4048
4049	<listitem>
4050	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installation path for OpenGL libraries
4051	in some 64-bit guests (bug #3693)</para>
4052	</listitem>
4053
4054	<listitem>
4055	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed installation to work when X.Org is not
4056	installed on the guest</para>
4057	</listitem>
4058
4059	<listitem>
4060	<para>Solaris Additions: fixed a bug that could panic the guest when
4061	unmounting a busy shared folder</para>
4062	</listitem>
4063
4064	<listitem>
4065	<para>Windows Additions: fixed mouse pointer integration of some
4066	Windows guests (2.2.0 regression, bug #3734)</para>
4067	</listitem>
4068
4069	<listitem>
4070	<para>Windows Additions: fixed installation on Windows Server 2008 Core
4071	(bug #2628)</para>
4072	</listitem>
4073
4074	<listitem>
4075	<para>Main: do not try to use older versions of D-Bus (Linux
4076	hosts only, bug #3732)</para>
4077	</listitem>
4078
4079	<listitem>
4080	<para>VMM: fixed out-of-memory conditions on Windows hosts
4081	(bug #3657)</para>
4082	</listitem>
4083
4084	<listitem>
4085	<para>VMM: fixed occasional hangs when attaching USB
4086	devices during VM startup (2.2.0 regression; bugs #3787)</para>
4087	</listitem>
4088
4089	<listitem>
4090	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation related to memory management (software
4091	virtualization only)
4092	</para>
4093	</listitem>
4094
4095	<listitem>
4096	<para>Virtual disks: fix possible data corruption when writing to diff
4097	images, incorrect detection of redundant writes</para>
4098	</listitem>
4099
4100	<listitem>
4101	<para>GUI: reworked network settings dialog</para>
4102	</listitem>
4103
4104	<listitem>
4105	<para>GUI: properly show the detailed settings dialog of NAT
4106	networks (bug #3702)</para>
4107	</listitem>
4108
4109	<listitem>
4110	<para>GUI: HostKey could not be changed (2.2.0 regression,
4111	bug #3689)</para>
4112	</listitem>
4113
4114	<listitem>
4115	<para>GUI: fixed memory textfield size (Windows hosts only;
4116	bug #3679)</para>
4117	</listitem>
4118
4119	<listitem>
4120	<para>GUI: fixed crash when selecting a shared folder path (Windows hosts only;
4121	bugs #3694, #3751, #3756)</para>
4122	</listitem>
4123
4124	<listitem>
4125	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>modifyhd --compact</computeroutput>:
4126	implemented again for VDI files, and now supports relative paths
4127	(bug #2180, #2833)</para>
4128	</listitem>
4129
4130	<listitem>
4131	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>snapshot discard</computeroutput>:
4132	made it work again (2.1.0 regression; bug #3714)</para>
4133	</listitem>
4134
4135	<listitem>
4136	<para>NAT: on some Windows hosts, the guest didn't receive a DHCP
4137	lease (bug #3655)</para>
4138	</listitem>
4139
4140	<listitem>
4141	<para>NAT: fixed release assertion during <emphasis>poll()</emphasis>
4142	(bug #3667)</para>
4143	</listitem>
4144
4145	<listitem>
4146	<para>Networking: fixed a deadlock caused by the PCnet network device
4147	emulation (2.2.0 regression, bug #3676)</para>
4148	</listitem>
4149
4150	<listitem>
4151	<para>Clipboard: fixed random crashes (X11 hosts only, bug #3723)</para>
4152	</listitem>
4153
4154	<listitem>
4155	<para>Shared Folders: fixed incorrect permissions for Solaris guests</para>
4156	</listitem>
4157
4158	<listitem>
4159	<para>Shared Folders: fixed wrong file sizes with Solaris guests</para>
4160	</listitem>
4161
4162	<listitem>
4163	<para>CBindings: fixed possible memory leak while releasing the IVirtualBox and ISession Objects</para>
4164	</listitem>
4165
4166	<listitem>
4167	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host-only network interface incompatibility with nwam/dhcpagent (bug #3754)</para>
4168	</listitem>
4169
4170	<listitem>
4171	<para>Windows installer: fixed several install and uninstall issues (bugs #3659, #3686, #1730, #3711, #3373, #3382, #3701, #3685, #3710)</para>
4172	</listitem>
4173
4174	<listitem>
4175	<para>Mac OS X hosts: preliminary support for Snow Leopard</para>
4176	</listitem>
4177
4178	</itemizedlist>
4179	</sect1>
4180
4181	<sect1>
4182	<title>Version 2.2.0 (2009-04-08)</title>
4183
4184	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
4185	were added:</para>
4186
4187	<itemizedlist>
4188
4189	<listitem>
4190	<para>OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see <xref linkend="ovf" />) </para>
4191	</listitem>
4192
4193	<listitem>
4194	<para>Host-only networking mode (see <xref linkend="network_hostonly" />) </para>
4195	</listitem>
4196
4197	<listitem>
4198	<para>Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates</para>
4199	</listitem>
4200
4201	<listitem>
4202	<para>Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB</para>
4203	</listitem>
4204
4205	<listitem>
4206	<para>VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines</para>
4207	</listitem>
4208
4209	<listitem>
4210	<para>USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)</para>
4211	</listitem>
4212
4213	<listitem>
4214	<para>Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts</para>
4215	</listitem>
4216
4217	<listitem>
4218	<para>Shared Folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests</para>
4219	</listitem>
4220
4221	<listitem>
4222	<para>OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
4223	</listitem>
4224
4225	<listitem>
4226	<para>Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services</para>
4227	</listitem>
4228
4229	</itemizedlist>
4230
4231	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
4232
4233	<itemizedlist>
4234
4235	<listitem>
4236	<para>VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342) </para>
4237	</listitem>
4238
4239	<listitem>
4240	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342) </para>
4241	</listitem>
4242
4243	<listitem>
4244	<para>VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431) </para>
4245	</listitem>
4246
4247	<listitem>
4248	<para>VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only) </para>
4249	</listitem>
4250
4251	<listitem>
4252	<para>VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization </para>
4253	</listitem>
4254
4255	<listitem>
4256	<para>VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4257	</listitem>
4258
4259	<listitem>
4260	<para>VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only) </para>
4261	</listitem>
4262
4263	<listitem>
4264	<para>VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only) </para>
4265	</listitem>
4266
4267	<listitem>
4268	<para>VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x,
4269	but don't set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL </para>
4270	</listitem>
4271
4272	<listitem>
4273	<para>VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794) </para>
4274	</listitem>
4275
4276	<listitem>
4277	<para>VMM: properly emulate <emphasis>RDMSR</emphasis> from the
4278	TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests</para>
4279	</listitem>
4280
4281	<listitem>
4282	<para>VMM: emulate <emphasis>RDPMC</emphasis>; fixes Windows guests crashes
4283	when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778) </para>
4284	</listitem>
4285
4286	<listitem>
4287	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)</para>
4288	</listitem>
4289
4290	<listitem>
4291	<para>NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)</para>
4292	</listitem>
4293
4294	<listitem>
4295	<para>NAT: allow to configure the <emphasis>next server</emphasis>
4296	and the <emphasis>boot file</emphasis> via VBoxManage (bug #2759)</para>
4297	</listitem>
4298
4299	<listitem>
4300	<para>IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)</para>
4301	</listitem>
4302
4303	<listitem>
4304	<para>Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size
4305	ESX server images)</para>
4306	</listitem>
4307
4308	<listitem>
4309	<para>Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not
4310	writable</para>
4311	</listitem>
4312
4313	<listitem>
4314	<para>USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and
4315	EHCI; the "VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate" CFG key
4316	is no longer necessary and no longer supported</para>
4317	</listitem>
4318
4319	<listitem>
4320	<para>USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices
4321	(Windows hosts only; bug #1654)</para>
4322	</listitem>
4323
4324	<listitem>
4325	<para>E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)</para>
4326	</listitem>
4327
4328	<listitem>
4329	<para>VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime</para>
4330	</listitem>
4331
4332	<listitem>
4333	<para>Shared Folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris
4334	hosts when creating files</para>
4335	</listitem>
4336
4337	<listitem>
4338	<para>X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as
4339	this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)</para>
4340	</listitem>
4341
4342	<listitem>
4343	<para>X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position
4344	if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug
4345	#2306)</para>
4346	</listitem>
4347
4348	<listitem>
4349	<para>Linux Additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6
4350	(bug #3555)</para>
4351	</listitem>
4352
4353	<listitem>
4354	<para>Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the Guest Additions
4355	installer (bug #3524)</para>
4356	</listitem>
4357
4358	<listitem>
4359	<para>Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the
4360	correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)</para>
4361	</listitem>
4362
4363	<listitem>
4364	<para>Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host
4365	interface (bug #3414)</para>
4366	</listitem>
4367
4368	<listitem>
4369	<para>Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading
4370	the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)</para>
4371	</listitem>
4372
4373	<listitem>
4374	<para>Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh
4375	(bug #3586)</para>
4376	</listitem>
4377
4378	<listitem>
4379	<para>Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux
4380	from Scratch systems</para>
4381	</listitem>
4382
4383	<listitem>
4384	<para>Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains
4385	both (32- and 64-bit) architectures</para>
4386	</listitem>
4387
4388	<listitem>
4389	<para>VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages</para>
4390	</listitem>
4391
4392	<listitem>
4393	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>list vms</computeroutput> commands now
4394	default to compact format</para>
4395	</listitem>
4396
4397	<listitem>
4398	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>controlvm dvdattach</computeroutput>
4399	did not work if the image was attached before</para>
4400	</listitem>
4401
4402	<listitem>
4403	<para>VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants</para>
4404	</listitem>
4405
4406	<listitem>
4407	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4408	don't spam the release log if the Guest Additions don't support
4409	statistics information (bug #3457)</para>
4410	</listitem>
4411
4412	<listitem>
4413	<para>VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy
4414	single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the
4415	next major release, so switch to the new options now</para>
4416	</listitem>
4417
4418	<listitem>
4419	<para>Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at
4420	VM startup (related to bug #2772)</para>
4421	</listitem>
4422
4423	<listitem>
4424	<para>GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs</para>
4425	</listitem>
4426
4427	<listitem>
4428	<para>GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest</para>
4429	</listitem>
4430
4431	<listitem>
4432	<para>GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V</para>
4433	</listitem>
4434
4435	<listitem>
4436	<para>GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar</para>
4437	</listitem>
4438
4439	<listitem>
4440	<para>GUI: show build revision in about dialog</para>
4441	</listitem>
4442
4443	<listitem>
4444	<para>GUI: fixed sticky status bar text</para>
4445	</listitem>
4446
4447	<listitem>
4448	<para>GUI: improved error dialogs</para>
4449	</listitem>
4450
4451	<listitem>
4452	<para>GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot
4453	a read-only disk image (bug #1745)</para>
4454	</listitem>
4455
4456	<listitem>
4457	<para>GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button</para>
4458	</listitem>
4459
4460	<listitem>
4461	<para>GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0
4462	regression; bug #2065)</para>
4463	</listitem>
4464
4465	<listitem>
4466	<para>3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)</para>
4467	</listitem>
4468
4469	<listitem>
4470	<para>3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)</para>
4471	</listitem>
4472
4473	<listitem>
4474	<para>3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)</para>
4475	</listitem>
4476
4477	<listitem>
4478	<para>PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug
4479	#2536)</para>
4480	</listitem>
4481
4482	<listitem>
4483	<para>LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests</para>
4484	</listitem>
4485
4486	<listitem>
4487	<para>Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine
4488	(bug #3548)</para>
4489	</listitem>
4490
4491	</itemizedlist>
4492	</sect1>
4493
4494	<sect1>
4495	<title>Version 2.1.4 (2009-02-16)</title>
4496
4497	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4498	added:</para>
4499
4500	<itemizedlist>
4501
4502	<listitem>
4503	<para>Windows hosts: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
4504	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
4505	</listitem>
4506
4507	<listitem>
4508	<para>Windows hosts: fixed network component BSOD issue (bugs #3168, #2916)</para>
4509	</listitem>
4510
4511	<listitem>
4512	<para>Windows hosts: fixed installation issues (bugs #2517, #1730, #3130)</para>
4513	</listitem>
4514
4515	<listitem>
4516	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
4517	</listitem>
4518
4519	<listitem>
4520	<para>Linux hosts: fixed module dependency for shipped modules
4521	(bug #3115)</para>
4522	</listitem>
4523
4524	<listitem>
4525	<para>Linux hosts: moved the udev rules for USB forward so that they
4526	don't override existing system rules (bug #3143)</para>
4527	</listitem>
4528
4529	<listitem>
4530	<para>Linux hosts: fixed the issue with guest not being able to
4531	communicate with each other when attached via TAP interfaces
4532	(bug #3215)</para>
4533	</listitem>
4534
4535	<listitem>
4536	<para>Linux hosts: give up probing for USB gracefully if DBus or hal
4537	are not available (bug #3136)</para>
4538	</listitem>
4539
4540	<listitem>
4541	<para>Linux hosts: fixed warnings in installer when SELinux was
4542	disabled (bug #3098)</para>
4543	</listitem>
4544
4545	<listitem>
4546	<para>Linux hosts: VirtualBox sometimes failed to start if it had
4547	been started using sudo previously (bug #3270)</para>
4548	</listitem>
4549
4550	<listitem>
4551	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
4552	in parallel</para>
4553	</listitem>
4554
4555	<listitem>
4556	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
4557	</listitem>
4558
4559	<listitem>
4560	<para>VMM: fixed performance regression for Windows guests (bug #3172) </para>
4561	</listitem>
4562
4563	<listitem>
4564	<para>VMM: ignore CPU stepping when restoring a saved state/snapshot</para>
4565	</listitem>
4566
4567	<listitem>
4568	<para>REM: fixed inability to use gdb to debug programs in Linux guests with
4569	software virtualization (bug #3245)</para>
4570	</listitem>
4571
4572	<listitem>
4573	<para>GUI: fixed dead key handling on Solaris hosts (bug #3256)</para>
4574	</listitem>
4575
4576	<listitem>
4577	<para>GUI: in the shutdown dialog, disable the action <emphasis>send the
4578	shutdown signal</emphasis> if the guest is currently not using ACPI</para>
4579	</listitem>
4580
4581	<listitem>
4582	<para>GUI: suppress additional key release events sent by X11 hosts
4583	when keys are auto-repeated (bug #1296)</para>
4584	</listitem>
4585
4586	<listitem>
4587	<para>API: restore case insensitive OS type name lookup (bug #3087)</para>
4588	</listitem>
4589
4590	<listitem>
4591	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
4592	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
4593	</listitem>
4594
4595	<listitem>
4596	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes when the guest is doing
4597	traceroute (non-Windows hosts; bug #3200)</para>
4598	</listitem>
4599
4600	<listitem>
4601	<para>NAT: fixed crashes under high load (bug #3110)</para>
4602	</listitem>
4603
4604	<listitem>
4605	<para>NAT: fixed truncated downloads (Windows hosts only, bug #3257)</para>
4606	</listitem>
4607
4608	<listitem>
4609	<para>NAT: don't intercept TFTP packages with a destination address
4610	different from the builtin TFTP server (bug #3112)</para>
4611	</listitem>
4612
4613	<listitem>
4614	<para>USB: several fixes for USB passthrough on Linux hosts</para>
4615	</listitem>
4616
4617	<listitem>
4618	<para>USB: reduced host CPU utilization if EHCI is active</para>
4619	</listitem>
4620
4621	<listitem>
4622	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server black screen after a client reconnect (bug #1989)</para>
4623	</listitem>
4624
4625	<listitem>
4626	<para>VRDP: modified rdesktop client (rdesktop-vrdp) now uses NumLock state
4627	synchronization (bug #3253)</para>
4628	</listitem>
4629
4630	<listitem>
4631	<para>LsiLogic: make FreeBSD guests work (bug #3174)</para>
4632	</listitem>
4633
4634	<listitem>
4635	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
4636	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
4637	</listitem>
4638
4639	<listitem>
4640	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
4641	</listitem>
4642
4643	<listitem>
4644	<para>3D support: added missing GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS_ARB (bug #3246)</para>
4645	</listitem>
4646
4647	<listitem>
4648	<para>Windows Additions: fixed <emphasis>ERROR (e0000101)</emphasis>
4649	error during installation (bug #1923)</para>
4650	</listitem>
4651
4652	<listitem>
4653	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows Explorer hang when browsing shared folders
4654	with 64 bit guests (bug #2225)</para>
4655	</listitem>
4656
4657	<listitem>
4658	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest screen distortions during a video mode change</para>
4659	</listitem>
4660
4661	<listitem>
4662	<para>Windows Additions: fixed the <emphasis>Network drive not connected</emphasis>
4663	message for mapped shared folders drives after the guest startup (bug #3157)</para>
4664	</listitem>
4665
4666	<listitem>
4667	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
4668	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
4669	</listitem>
4670
4671	<listitem>
4672	<para>Linux Additions: the mouse driver was not properly set up
4673	on X.Org release candidates (bug #3212)</para>
4674	</listitem>
4675
4676	<listitem>
4677	<para>Linux Additions: fixed installer to work with openSUSE 11.1
4678	(bug #3213)</para>
4679	</listitem>
4680
4681	<listitem>
4682	<para>Linux Additions: disable dynamic resizing if the X server is
4683	configured for fixed resolutions</para>
4684	</listitem>
4685
4686	<listitem>
4687	<para>Linux/Solaris Additions: handle virtual resolutions properly which are
4688	larger than the actual guest resolution (bug #3096)</para>
4689	</listitem>
4690
4691	</itemizedlist>
4692	</sect1>
4693
4694	<sect1>
4695	<title>Version 2.1.2 (2009-01-21)</title>
4696
4697	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
4698	added:</para>
4699
4700	<itemizedlist>
4701
4702	<listitem>
4703	<para>USB: Linux host support fixes (bug #3136)</para>
4704	</listitem>
4705
4706	<listitem>
4707	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)</para>
4708	</listitem>
4709
4710	<listitem>
4711	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x</para>
4712	</listitem>
4713
4714	<listitem>
4715	<para>VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)</para>
4716	</listitem>
4717
4718	<listitem>
4719	<para>VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761) </para>
4720	</listitem>
4721
4722	<listitem>
4723	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)</para>
4724	</listitem>
4725
4726	<listitem>
4727	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898) </para>
4728	</listitem>
4729
4730	<listitem>
4731	<para>VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM </para>
4732	</listitem>
4733
4734	<listitem>
4735	<para>VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058) </para>
4736	</listitem>
4737
4738	<listitem>
4739	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only) </para>
4740	</listitem>
4741
4742	<listitem>
4743	<para>VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only) </para>
4744	</listitem>
4745
4746	<listitem>
4747	<para>VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only) </para>
4748	</listitem>
4749
4750	<listitem>
4751	<para>VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts </para>
4752	</listitem>
4753
4754	<listitem>
4755	<para>VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests </para>
4756	</listitem>
4757
4758	<listitem>
4759	<para>GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory</para>
4760	</listitem>
4761
4762	<listitem>
4763	<para>GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type</para>
4764	</listitem>
4765
4766	<listitem>
4767	<para>VBoxSDL: fixed <computeroutput>-fixed fixedmode</computeroutput> parameter
4768	(bug #3067)</para>
4769	</listitem>
4770
4771	<listitem>
4772	<para>Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only,
4773	bug #2675 and #3003)</para>
4774	</listitem>
4775
4776	<listitem>
4777	<para>3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications
4778	(bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)</para>
4779	</listitem>
4780
4781	<listitem>
4782	<para>LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)</para>
4783	</listitem>
4784
4785	<listitem>
4786	<para>VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize
4787	events were not properly handled (bug #2783)</para>
4788	</listitem>
4789
4790	<listitem>
4791	<para>VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V
4792	on Mac OS X hosts</para>
4793	</listitem>
4794
4795	<listitem>
4796	<para>VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)</para>
4797	</listitem>
4798
4799	<listitem>
4800	<para>VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up
4801	to correct ones (bug #2895)</para>
4802	</listitem>
4803
4804	<listitem>
4805	<para>IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)</para>
4806	</listitem>
4807
4808	<listitem>
4809	<para>Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference
4810	in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)</para>
4811	</listitem>
4812
4813	<listitem>
4814	<para>Networking: fixed intermittent BSODs when using the new host
4815	interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)</para>
4816	</listitem>
4817
4818	<listitem>
4819	<para>Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs
4820	in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
4821	</para>
4822	</listitem>
4823
4824	<listitem>
4825	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs
4826	without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
4827	</para>
4828	</listitem>
4829
4830	<listitem>
4831	<para>Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to
4832	internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
4833	</para>
4834	</listitem>
4835
4836	<listitem>
4837	<para>NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)</para>
4838	</listitem>
4839
4840	<listitem>
4841	<para>NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)</para>
4842	</listitem>
4843
4844	<listitem>
4845	<para>NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)</para>
4846	</listitem>
4847
4848	<listitem>
4849	<para>SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable</para>
4850	</listitem>
4851
4852	<listitem>
4853	<para>SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized
4854	(2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)</para>
4855	</listitem>
4856
4857	<listitem>
4858	<para>SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files
4859	(Linux host only, bug #2796)</para>
4860	</listitem>
4861
4862	<listitem>
4863	<para>SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like
4864	formatting a drive</para>
4865	</listitem>
4866
4867	<listitem>
4868	<para>SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown</para>
4869	</listitem>
4870
4871	<listitem>
4872	<para>VRDP: fixed loading of <computeroutput>libpam.so.1</computeroutput>
4873	from the host (Solaris hosts only)</para>
4874	</listitem>
4875
4876	<listitem>
4877	<para>VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects</para>
4878	</listitem>
4879
4880	<listitem>
4881	<para>VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection</para>
4882	</listitem>
4883
4884	<listitem>
4885	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>showvminfo</computeroutput>:
4886	fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)</para>
4887	</listitem>
4888
4889	<listitem>
4890	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>convertfromraw</computeroutput>: added
4891	parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files;
4892	fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)</para>
4893	</listitem>
4894
4895	<listitem>
4896	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>clonehd</computeroutput>: fixed
4897	garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)</para>
4898	</listitem>
4899
4900	<listitem>
4901	<para>VBoxManage <computeroutput>guestproperty</computeroutput>: fixed
4902	property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)</para>
4903	</listitem>
4904
4905	<listitem>
4906	<para>VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files
4907	(bug #2768)</para>
4908	</listitem>
4909
4910	<listitem>
4911	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)</para>
4912	</listitem>
4913
4914	<listitem>
4915	<para>Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)</para>
4916	</listitem>
4917
4918	<listitem>
4919	<para>Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a
4920	single, unified package</para>
4921	</listitem>
4922
4923	<listitem>
4924	<para>Linux hosts: don't depend on <computeroutput>libcap1</computeroutput>
4925	anymore (bug #2859)</para>
4926	</listitem>
4927
4928	<listitem>
4929	<para>Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1</para>
4930	</listitem>
4931
4932	<listitem>
4933	<para>Linux hosts: don't drop any capability if the VM was started
4934	by root (2.1.0 regression)</para>
4935	</listitem>
4936
4937	<listitem>
4938	<para>Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the
4939	host machine's battery reaches critical level</para>
4940	</listitem>
4941
4942	<listitem>
4943	<para>Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window</para>
4944	</listitem>
4945
4946	<listitem>
4947	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime
4948	preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is
4949	doing 3D</para>
4950	</listitem>
4951
4952	<listitem>
4953	<para>Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon</para>
4954	</listitem>
4955
4956	<listitem>
4957	<para>Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type
4958	detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta</para>
4959	</listitem>
4960
4961	<listitem>
4962	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)</para>
4963	</listitem>
4964
4965	<listitem>
4966	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing
4967	files on shared folders (bug #2764)</para>
4968	</listitem>
4969
4970	<listitem>
4971	<para>Windows Additions: fixed CTRL-ALT-DEL handling when using VBoxGINA</para>
4972	</listitem>
4973
4974	<listitem>
4975	<para>Windows Additions Installer: added /extract switch to only extract
4976	(not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)</para>
4977	</listitem>
4978
4979	<listitem>
4980	<para>Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux
4981	From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions
4982	(bug #2938)</para>
4983	</listitem>
4984
4985	<listitem>
4986	<para>Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on
4987	Linux guests</para>
4988	</listitem>
4989
4990	<listitem>
4991	<para>Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set
4992	<computeroutput>fmode</computeroutput> on mapped shared folders
4993	(bug #1776)</para>
4994	</listitem>
4995
4996	<listitem>
4997	<para>Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders
4998	(bug #1612)</para>
4999	</listitem>
5000
5001	<listitem>
5002	<para>Linux Additions: ignore <computeroutput>noauto</computeroutput>
5003	option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)</para>
5004	</listitem>
5005
5006	<listitem>
5007	<para>Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from
5008	compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)</para>
5009	</listitem>
5010
5011	<listitem>
5012	<para>X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server
5013	crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)</para>
5014	</listitem>
5015
5016	</itemizedlist>
5017	</sect1>
5018
5019	<sect1>
5020	<title>Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)</title>
5021
5022	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5023	were added:</para>
5024
5025	<itemizedlist>
5026	<listitem>
5027	<para>Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5028	</listitem>
5029
5030	<listitem>
5031	<para>Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see <xref linkend="intro-64bitguests" />)</para>
5032	</listitem>
5033
5034	<listitem>
5035	<para>Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see <xref linkend="hwvirt" />)</para>
5036	</listitem>
5037
5038	<listitem>
5039	<para>Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see <xref linkend="guestadd-3d" />)</para>
5040	</listitem>
5041
5042	<listitem>
5043	<para>Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see <xref linkend="harddiskcontrollers" />)</para>
5044	</listitem>
5045
5046	<listitem>
5047	<para>Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see <xref linkend="vdidetails" />)</para>
5048	</listitem>
5049
5050	<listitem>
5051	<para>New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo
5052	(ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)</para>
5053	</listitem>
5054
5055	<listitem>
5056	<para>New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and
5057	Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)</para>
5058	</listitem>
5059
5060	</itemizedlist>
5061
5062	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5063
5064	<itemizedlist>
5065	<listitem>
5066	<para>VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution) </para>
5067	</listitem>
5068
5069	<listitem>
5070	<para>VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)</para>
5071	</listitem>
5072
5073	<listitem>
5074	<para>VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V </para>
5075	</listitem>
5076
5077	<listitem>
5078	<para>VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only) </para>
5079	</listitem>
5080
5081	<listitem>
5082	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner
5083	(software virtualization only; bug #1439)</para>
5084	</listitem>
5085
5086	<listitem>
5087	<para>VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate
5088	when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)</para>
5089	</listitem>
5090
5091	<listitem>
5092	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots </para>
5093	</listitem>
5094
5095	<listitem>
5096	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug
5097	instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)</para>
5098	</listitem>
5099
5100	<listitem>
5101	<para>VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x) </para>
5102	</listitem>
5103
5104	<listitem>
5105	<para>VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)</para>
5106	</listitem>
5107
5108	<listitem>
5109	<para>VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only) </para>
5110	</listitem>
5111
5112	<listitem>
5113	<para>GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5114	</listitem>
5115
5116	<listitem>
5117	<para>GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)</para>
5118	</listitem>
5119
5120	<listitem>
5121	<para>GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's
5122	battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)</para>
5123	</listitem>
5124
5125	<listitem>
5126	<para>GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on
5127	the compiz window manager</para>
5128	</listitem>
5129
5130	<listitem>
5131	<para>GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)</para>
5132	</listitem>
5133
5134	<listitem>
5135	<para>GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings</para>
5136	</listitem>
5137
5138	<listitem>
5139	<para>GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability</para>
5140	</listitem>
5141
5142	<listitem>
5143	<para>GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests</para>
5144	</listitem>
5145
5146	<listitem>
5147	<para>IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support</para>
5148	</listitem>
5149
5150	<listitem>
5151	<para>Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM</para>
5152	</listitem>
5153
5154	<listitem>
5155	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot</para>
5156	</listitem>
5157
5158	<listitem>
5159	<para>iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file</para>
5160	</listitem>
5161
5162	<listitem>
5163	<para>iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets</para>
5164	</listitem>
5165
5166	<listitem>
5167	<para>Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power
5168	of two (bug #2724)</para>
5169	</listitem>
5170
5171	<listitem>
5172	<para>VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port
5173	for direct device access</para>
5174	</listitem>
5175
5176	<listitem>
5177	<para>VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation</para>
5178	</listitem>
5179
5180	<listitem>
5181	<para>VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)</para>
5182	</listitem>
5183
5184	<listitem>
5185	<para>Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking</para>
5186	</listitem>
5187
5188	<listitem>
5189	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting</para>
5190	</listitem>
5191
5192	<listitem>
5193	<para>API: redesigned storage model with better generalization</para>
5194	</listitem>
5195
5196	<listitem>
5197	<para>API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time</para>
5198	</listitem>
5199
5200	<listitem>
5201	<para>API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system</para>
5202	</listitem>
5203
5204	<listitem>
5205	<para>Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)</para>
5206	</listitem>
5207
5208	</itemizedlist>
5209	</sect1>
5210
5211	<sect1>
5212	<title>Version 2.0.8 (2009-03-10)</title>
5213
5214	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5215	added:</para>
5216
5217	<itemizedlist>
5218
5219	<listitem>
5220	<para>VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved
5221	states/snapshots</para>
5222	</listitem>
5223
5224	<listitem>
5225	<para>VMM: fixed memory allocation issues which can cause VM start
5226	failures with VERR_PGM_MAPPING_CONFLICT error</para>
5227	</listitem>
5228
5229	<listitem>
5230	<para>VMM: fixed host crashes/hangs on certain 32 bits Windows systems
5231	when running Linux guests (bugs #1606, #2269, #2763)</para>
5232	</listitem>
5233
5234	<listitem>
5235	<para>XPCOM/Main: fixed synchronization bug caused by SYSV semaphore key
5236	collisions</para>
5237	</listitem>
5238
5239	<listitem>
5240	<para>ATA: fixed deadlock when pausing VM due to problems with the
5241	virtual disk (e.g. disk full, iSCSI target unavailable)</para>
5242	</listitem>
5243
5244	<listitem>
5245	<para>iSCSI: fixed possible crash when pausing the VM</para>
5246	</listitem>
5247
5248	<listitem>
5249	<para>iSCSI: fix PDU validity checking and detect final PDU
5250	reliably</para>
5251	</listitem>
5252
5253	<listitem>
5254	<para>VBoxHeadless: really don't start X11 services (clipboard service,
5255	3D acceleration; Solaris & Darwin hosts only; bug #3199)</para>
5256	</listitem>
5257
5258	<listitem>
5259	<para>Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after
5260	a reboot</para>
5261	</listitem>
5262
5263	<listitem>
5264	<para>Linux hosts: fixed occasional kernel oopses (bug #2556)</para>
5265	</listitem>
5266
5267	<listitem>
5268	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed high CPU load while running many guests
5269	in parallel</para>
5270	</listitem>
5271
5272	<listitem>
5273	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to start more than 128 VMs</para>
5274	</listitem>
5275
5276	<listitem>
5277	<para>Solaris/Web services: fixed SMF script to set home directory
5278	correctly</para>
5279	</listitem>
5280
5281	<listitem>
5282	<para>Linux Additions: fixed occasional file corruption when writing files
5283	in <emphasis>O_APPEND</emphasis> mode to a shared folder (bug #2844)</para>
5284	</listitem>
5285
5286	</itemizedlist>
5287	</sect1>
5288
5289	<sect1>
5290	<title>Version 2.0.6 (2008-11-21)</title>
5291
5292	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5293	added:</para>
5294
5295	<itemizedlist>
5296
5297	<listitem>
5298	<para>VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests
5299	(bug #2220)</para>
5300	</listitem>
5301
5302	<listitem>
5303	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)</para>
5304	</listitem>
5305
5306	<listitem>
5307	<para>VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)</para>
5308	</listitem>
5309
5310	<listitem>
5311	<para>GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows
5312	hosts only, bug #1996)</para>
5313	</listitem>
5314
5315	<listitem>
5316	<para>GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring
5317	the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)</para>
5318	</listitem>
5319
5320	<listitem>
5321	<para>VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information
5322	(bug #2624)</para>
5323	</listitem>
5324
5325	<listitem>
5326	<para>SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned
5327	(bug #2024)</para>
5328	</listitem>
5329
5330	<listitem>
5331	<para>SATA: improved performance</para>
5332	</listitem>
5333
5334	<listitem>
5335	<para>SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)</para>
5336	</listitem>
5337
5338	<listitem>
5339	<para>E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances</para>
5340	</listitem>
5341
5342	<listitem>
5343	<para>USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host:
5344	bugs #470 & #491)</para>
5345	</listitem>
5346
5347	<listitem>
5348	<para>Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox
5349	applications when updating the installation</para>
5350	</listitem>
5351
5352	<listitem>
5353	<para>Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on
5354	64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)</para>
5355	</listitem>
5356
5357	<listitem>
5358	<para>Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions
5359	in <computeroutput>/tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc</computeroutput></para>
5360	</listitem>
5361
5362	<listitem>
5363	<para>Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts,
5364	fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)</para>
5365	</listitem>
5366
5367	<listitem>
5368	<para>Linux hosts: don't crash during shutdown with serial ports
5369	connected to a host device</para>
5370	</listitem>
5371
5372	<listitem>
5373	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking</para>
5374	</listitem>
5375
5376	<listitem>
5377	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking</para>
5378	</listitem>
5379
5380	<listitem>
5381	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)</para>
5382	</listitem>
5383
5384	<listitem>
5385	<para>Windows Additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties
5386	when using native RDP connections</para>
5387	</listitem>
5388
5389	<listitem>
5390	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared
5391	folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)</para>
5392	</listitem>
5393
5394	<listitem>
5395	<para>Windows Additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office
5396	(bug #2591)</para>
5397	</listitem>
5398
5399	<listitem>
5400	<para>Linux Additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit
5401	guests (bug #2550)</para>
5402	</listitem>
5403
5404	<listitem>
5405	<para>SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections</para>
5406	</listitem>
5407
5408	</itemizedlist>
5409	</sect1>
5410
5411	<sect1>
5412	<title>Version 2.0.4 (2008-10-24)</title>
5413
5414	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5415	added:</para>
5416
5417	<itemizedlist>
5418	<listitem>
5419	<para>VMM: better error reporting for VT-x failures</para>
5420	</listitem>
5421
5422	<listitem>
5423	<para>VMM: don't overflow the release log with PATM messages (bug #1775)</para>
5424	</listitem>
5425
5426	<listitem>
5427	<para>VMM: fixed save state restore in real mode (software virtualization only)</para>
5428	</listitem>
5429
5430	<listitem>
5431	<para>GUI: work around a Qt bug on Mac OS X (bug #2321)</para>
5432	</listitem>
5433
5434	<listitem>
5435	<para>GUI: properly install the Qt4 accessible plugin (bug #629)</para>
5436	</listitem>
5437
5438	<listitem>
5439	<para>SATA: error message when starting a VM with a VMDK connected to a SATA port (bug #2182)</para>
5440	</listitem>
5441
5442	<listitem>
5443	<para>SATA: fixed Guru mediation when booting OpenSolaris/64; most
5444	likely applies to other guests as well (bug #2292)</para>
5445	</listitem>
5446
5447	<listitem>
5448	<para>Network: don't crash when changing the adapter link state if no
5449	host driver is attached (bug #2333)</para>
5450	</listitem>
5451
5452	<listitem>
5453	<para>VHD: fixed bug which prevents booting from VHD images bigger than 4GB (bug #2085)</para>
5454	</listitem>
5455
5456	<listitem>
5457	<para>VRDP: fixed a repaint problem when the guest resolution was not
5458	equal to the client resolution</para>
5459	</listitem>
5460
5461	<listitem>
5462	<para>Clipboard: don't crash when host service initialization takes
5463	longer than expected (Linux hosts only; bug #2001)</para>
5464	</listitem>
5465
5466	<listitem>
5467	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe crash (bug #2212)</para>
5468	</listitem>
5469
5470	<listitem>
5471	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe memory leak due to a Windows WMI memory leak (Vista only) (bug #2242)</para>
5472	</listitem>
5473
5474	<listitem>
5475	<para>Windows hosts: VBoxSVC.exe delays GUI startup</para>
5476	</listitem>
5477
5478	<listitem>
5479	<para>Linux hosts: handle jiffies counter overflow (VM stuck after 300
5480	seconds of host uptime; bug #2247)</para>
5481	</listitem>
5482
5483	<listitem>
5484	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed host or guest side networking going stale while using host interface
5485	networking (bug #2474)</para>
5486	</listitem>
5487
5488	<listitem>
5489	<para>Solaris hosts: added support for using unplumbed network interfaces and Crossbow Virtual
5490	Network Interfaces (VNICs) with host interface networking</para>
5491	</listitem>
5492
5493	<listitem>
5494	<para>Solaris hosts: reworked threading model improves performance for host interface networking</para>
5495	</listitem>
5496
5497	<listitem>
5498	<para>Windows Additions: fixed crash when accessing deep directory structures in a shared folder</para>
5499	</listitem>
5500
5501	<listitem>
5502	<para>Windows Additions: improved shared folder name resolving (bug #1728)</para>
5503	</listitem>
5504
5505	<listitem>
5506	<para>Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 shutdown crash (bug #2254)</para>
5507	</listitem>
5508
5509	<listitem>
5510	<para>Windows Additions: fixed error code for
5511	<computeroutput>MoveFile()</computeroutput> if the target exists (bug #2350)</para>
5512	</listitem>
5513
5514	<listitem>
5515	<para>Linux Additions: fixed <computeroutput>seek()</computeroutput>
5516	for files bigger than 2GB (bug #2379)</para>
5517	</listitem>
5518
5519	<listitem>
5520	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10</para>
5521	</listitem>
5522
5523	<listitem>
5524	<para>Linux Additions: clipboard fixes (bug #2015)</para>
5525	</listitem>
5526
5527	<listitem>
5528	<para>Web services: improved documentation and fixed example (bug #1642)</para>
5529	</listitem>
5530
5531	</itemizedlist>
5532
5533	</sect1>
5534
5535	<sect1>
5536	<title>Version 2.0.2 (2008-09-12)</title>
5537
5538	<para>This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or
5539	added:</para>
5540
5541	<itemizedlist>
5542
5543	<listitem>
5544	<para>VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on
5545	CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)</para>
5546	</listitem>
5547
5548	<listitem>
5549	<para>VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)</para>
5550	</listitem>
5551
5552	<listitem>
5553	<para>VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha,
5554	Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875) </para>
5555	</listitem>
5556
5557	<listitem>
5558	<para>VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian) </para>
5559	</listitem>
5560
5561	<listitem>
5562	<para>VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and
5563	NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only) </para>
5564	</listitem>
5565
5566	<listitem>
5567	<para>VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132) </para>
5568	</listitem>
5569
5570	<listitem>
5571	<para>GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in
5572	the virtual disk manager</para>
5573	</listitem>
5574
5575	<listitem>
5576	<para>GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even
5577	if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)</para>
5578	</listitem>
5579
5580	<listitem>
5581	<para>GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)</para>
5582	</listitem>
5583
5584	<listitem>
5585	<para>GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)</para>
5586	</listitem>
5587
5588	<listitem>
5589	<para>GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new
5590	QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)</para>
5591	</listitem>
5592
5593	<listitem>
5594	<para>GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only;
5595	bug #2067)</para>
5596	</listitem>
5597
5598	<listitem>
5599	<para>GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)</para>
5600	</listitem>
5601
5602	<listitem>
5603	<para>GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by
5604	the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts) </para>
5605	</listitem>
5606
5607	<listitem>
5608	<para>VBoxManage: fixed crash during
5609	<computeroutput>internalcommands createrawvmdk</computeroutput>
5610	(bug #2184)</para>
5611	</listitem>
5612
5613	<listitem>
5614	<para>VBoxManage: fixed output of
5615	<computeroutput>snapshot showvminfo</computeroutput> (bug #698)</para>
5616	</listitem>
5617
5618	<listitem>
5619	<para>Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces
5620	(Windows guests only)</para>
5621	</listitem>
5622
5623	<listitem>
5624	<para>Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes</para>
5625	</listitem>
5626
5627	<listitem>
5628	<para>API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)</para>
5629	</listitem>
5630
5631	<listitem>
5632	<para>VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection
5633	(configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled) </para>
5634	</listitem>
5635
5636	<listitem>
5637	<para>VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem</para>
5638	</listitem>
5639
5640	<listitem>
5641	<para>Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel
5642	memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
5643	</para>
5644	</listitem>
5645
5646	<listitem>
5647	<para>Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27</para>
5648	</listitem>
5649
5650	<listitem>
5651	<para>Mac OS X hosts: added Python support</para>
5652	</listitem>
5653
5654	<listitem>
5655	<para>Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after
5656	a VM reboot</para>
5657	</listitem>
5658
5659	<listitem>
5660	<para>Windows Additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)</para>
5661	</listitem>
5662
5663	<listitem>
5664	<para>Linux Additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with
5665	buggy X servers</para>
5666	</listitem>
5667
5668	<listitem>
5669	<para>Linux Additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests
5670	(dynamic resizing disabled for the latter)</para>
5671	</listitem>
5672
5673	<listitem>
5674	<para>Linux Additions: added installer check for the system architecture</para>
5675	</listitem>
5676
5677	<listitem>
5678	<para>Linux Additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions
5679	(bug #2128)</para>
5680	</listitem>
5681
5682	<listitem>
5683	<para>VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format
5684	specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)</para>
5685	</listitem>
5686
5687	<listitem>
5688	<para>VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading
5689	the wrong data (bug #2085)</para>
5690	</listitem>
5691
5692	<listitem>
5693	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when
5694	starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)</para>
5695	</listitem>
5696
5697	<listitem>
5698	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the
5699	host when host interface networking was enabled</para>
5700	</listitem>
5701
5702	<listitem>
5703	<para>Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when
5704	installing under the wrong architecture</para>
5705	</listitem>
5706
5707	<listitem>
5708	<para>Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented
5709	starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)</para>
5710	</listitem>
5711
5712	<listitem>
5713	<para>Solaris Additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit Additions
5714	installer into a single package</para>
5715	</listitem>
5716
5717	<listitem>
5718	<para>Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial
5719	port to the guest
5720	</para>
5721	</listitem>
5722
5723	</itemizedlist>
5724
5725	</sect1>
5726
5727	<sect1>
5728	<title>Version 2.0.0 (2008-09-04)</title>
5729
5730	<para>This version is a major update. The following major new features
5731	were added:<itemizedlist>
5732
5733	<listitem>
5734	<para>64 bits guest support (64 bits host only) </para>
5735	</listitem>
5736
5737	<listitem>
5738	<para>New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5739	</listitem>
5740
5741	<listitem>
5742	<para>The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements</para>
5743	</listitem>
5744
5745	<listitem>
5746	<para>New-version notifier</para>
5747	</listitem>
5748
5749	<listitem>
5750	<para>Guest property information interface</para>
5751	</listitem>
5752
5753	<listitem>
5754	<para>Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts</para>
5755	</listitem>
5756
5757	<listitem>
5758	<para>New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts</para>
5759	</listitem>
5760
5761	<listitem>
5762	<para>Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)</para>
5763	</listitem>
5764
5765	<listitem>
5766	<para>Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)</para>
5767	</listitem>
5768
5769	<listitem>
5770	<para>Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw
5771	disks/partitions (major performance gain)</para>
5772	</listitem>
5773
5774	<listitem>
5775	<para>Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests</para>
5776	</listitem>
5777
5778	<listitem>
5779	<para>Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts</para>
5780	</listitem>
5781
5782	<listitem>
5783	<para>Support for VHD disk images</para>
5784	</listitem>
5785
5786	</itemizedlist></para>
5787
5788	<para>In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:</para>
5789
5790	<itemizedlist>
5791
5792	<listitem>
5793	<para>VMM: VT-x fixes</para>
5794	</listitem>
5795
5796	<listitem>
5797	<para>AHCI: improved performance</para>
5798	</listitem>
5799
5800	<listitem>
5801	<para>GUI: keyboard fixes</para>
5802	</listitem>
5803
5804	<listitem>
5805	<para>Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if
5806	unregistering the DKMS module fails</para>
5807	</listitem>
5808
5809	<listitem>
5810	<para>Linux Additions: the guest screen resolution is properly
5811	restored</para>
5812	</listitem>
5813
5814	<listitem>
5815	<para>Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)</para>
5816	</listitem>
5817
5818	<listitem>
5819	<para>Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11</para>
5820	</listitem>
5821
5822	<listitem>
5823	<para>Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn't simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)</para>
5824	</listitem>
5825
5826	</itemizedlist>
5827
5828	</sect1>
5829
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